password

password does not return a result set. If the current password is incorrect, or the new password is invalid, you see an error message.

Syntax

password current_password new_password

Parameters

• current_password – the existing password for the administration user login name.
• new_password – the new password for the administration user login name. The default minimum password length is 6 and the maximum password length is 30. You can configure the password length in the instance.cfg. Valid characters for input values are a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -, and _.

Examples

• Example 1 – changes the da_admin password from “sybase” to “onesybase”:

  password sybase onesybase 
  go