Understanding, Changing and Resetting Passwords in MiniCluster (Doc ID 2337258.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 13, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle MiniCluster Specific Software - Version 1.x and later
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)
Please Note: MiniCluster Engineering is able to support and provide bug fixes for the current MCMU release, as well as the current MCMU release minus 1. For information on current MCMU release, please refer to Oracle MiniCluster S7-2: Software Download Center

Purpose

Issues with passwords are one of the more common sources for customer support calls.
Customers often forget password, or forget to change them on time, or are not set up to be notified of pending expiration.
Due to the high security standards in MiniCluster password aging is enabled and passwords expire.
If mcinstall or oracle user passwords are changed manually (e.g. via 'passwd(1M) command line) outside of the MiniCluster Configuration Utility (MCMU) it will cause failures in the MCMU software stack.
Passwords need to be synchronized between the MCMU database and these MiniCluster critical user accounts.
Procedures for this are provided within MCMU command line and BUI; however, are not always correctly used.
This document gives detailed procedures to recover from the most common scenarios.

Scope

This document is intended for MiniCluster administrators. It covers readily available procedures to change, reset or recover passwords in MiniCluster. It does not replace the official documentation or provide instructions to circumvent the designed user management of MiniCluster.