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Dear Readers,
In this post i am going to discuss about the important tool oidpasswd .
We have to use oidpasswd in many important situations in Oracle Identity Management or in Oracle Application Server.

It can be used
1.To reset ods internal user password (ODS is the internal user for Oracle Identity Management)
using
$oidpasswd
$enter old password : *******
$enter new password : *******
$confirm new password : *******
Output:- password is reset(for ODS).
2.To reset orcladmin(super user for Oracle Identity Management)without knowing the password of which we can not do anything in OIM.
If you know ods password then its very easy.(default password should be “ods”)
otherwise using sqlplus change the ods password(SQL>alter user ods identified by ods;)
then do the following
$oidpasswd connect=connect_string create_wallet=true
then reset the orcladmin password
$oidpasswd connect=connect_string reset_su_password=true
it will ask for the database ods password
and ask the new password for orcladmin
if you confirm the new password your “orcladmin” password is reset.
3.To unlock orcladmin password (if password is expired)
$oidpasswd connect=connect_string unlock_su_acct=true
enter the current password of orcladmin
and the “orcladmin” user is unlocked

This is a very important utility in Oracle Identity Management which all the application server administrators,Identity Management Administrators should know.

Your comments are welcome