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What is the effect for SAP of changing passwords?

April 26, 2017changing passwords SAP

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What is the effect for SAP of changing passwords?

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Before you change passwords, you should always check whether scripts contain calls with hardcoded passwords. These scripts may have to be adjusted. When you change a password, you should take the following side effects in the standard SAP system into account: SAPR3 / SAP / SAPDB / SAPSR3DB: To allow continued logon of the R/3 work processes using the OPS$ mechanism, you must also change the password in the SAPUSER table. The simplest way of making a consistent change in the Oracle dictionary and in the SAPUSER table is to use the ” -f chpass” option of brconnect, for example: brconnect -f chpass -o [sapr3 | sap | sap | sapsr3] -p If the password is only adjusted in the Oracle system and not in the SAPUSER table, the work processes and tools such as R3trans or saplicense fail with ORA-01017. To avoid unexpected problems (for example, as described in Note 569302), we recommend that you only change the password when R/3 is stopped. SYSTEM: By default, sa