Reset Your Administrator Password

The producer will provide the default credentials (for the default license-server administrator account) needed to authorize your use of administrative functionality when security is enabled on the license server. Once your license server starts up, your first task is to reset the default administrator password. Use the -authorize options (to provide your default credentials that authorize you for the task) with the -users -edit options (to change your password).

To reset your administrator password

1.

Enter a command similar to this:

flexnetlsadmin -server licenseServer_baseURL -authorize defaultAdminName {defaultAdminPassword|
-passwordConsoleInput} -users -edit admin {newAdminPassword!|-passwordConsoleInput} 

The command requires the following:

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defaultAdminName—The case-sensitive name provided by the producer for the default administrator account. (“admin” is typically the default.)

defaultAdminPassword—The case-sensitive password provided by the producer for the default administrator account. You can provide this password directly in the command; or, to avoid exposing the password as a command-line argument, you can use the -passwordConsoleInput option, which then issues a prompt to enter the password as console input.

Note:On Linux platforms, if you supply a password directly on the command line you may need to escape some characters with a backslash in order to prevent the shell from interpreting them. The safest approach is to surround the whole password with single quotes, and backslash any single quote that is part of the password.

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newAdminPassword!—The new case-sensitive password that you want to define for the default administrator account. To avoid exposing the password as a command-line argument, you can use the ‑passwordConsoleInput option, which then issues a prompt to enter the password as console input. This password must meet the criteria specified in Credential Requirements.

Note:(Linux only) If you supply a password directly on the command line you may need to escape some characters with a backslash in order to prevent the shell from interpreting them. The safest approach is to surround the whole password with single quotes, and backslash any single quote that is part of the password.

2.

Once this password is reset, use your updated credentials with the -authorize option to access secured administrative functionality on the license server. See Use Credentials to Access Operations.

If you want to change your administrator name, create a new administrator account. See Creating Another Administrator Account in the next section, Create and Manage Other Enterprise User Accounts.