8.2. Changing Database Passwords
The JBoss ON server connects to its database instance as a database user. It does this automatically, using the credentials given in its
rhq-server.properties
file. The database password is encoded automatically by the installer before it is stored in the rhq-server.properties
file, to provide some extra protection against unauthorized access to the database password.
It's possible that the password for that database user account is changed. This change always occurs at the database, not in JBoss ON, so the password in the
rhq-server.properties
file has to be manually encoded and updated for JBoss ON to continue to function.
- Change the password for the JBoss ON user (
rhqadmin
by default) in the database. - Use the
rhq-encode-password.sh
script to encode the password.serverRoot/bin/rhq-encode-password.sh mypassword Encoded password:
1d31b70b3650168f79edee9e04977e34
JBoss ON stores its database password in an encoded form in therhq-server.properties
file. Therefore, the new database has to be properly encoded before it's added to therhq-server.properties
file so that the server reads it correctly. - Edit the
rhq.server.database.password
value in therhq-server.properties
file so that it has the new encoded password value.vim serverRoot/bin/rhq-server.properties rhq.server.database.password=
1d31b70b3650168f79edee9e04977e34