Recently I have installed sample app v207. After using image couple of time, I was not able to restart OBIEE BI Server and Presentation services. After digging into log files I found below message.
oracle.ods.virtualization.engine.util.DirectoryException: LDAP Error 49 : [LDAP: error code 49 – Password Policy Error :9000: GSL_PWDEXPIRED_EXCP :Your Password has expired. Please contact the Administrator to change your password.]
There is not much information regarding a fix for this problem in linux based VM. Most of the instructions described in related blogs need OID management services client. I was able to fix this problem using below steps.
Open a terminal in VM and follow below commands.
cd /home/oracle/oid/Oracle_IDM1/ldap/bin
export ORACLE_HOME=/home/oracle/oid/Oracle_IDM1/
export ORACLE_INSTANCE=/home/oracle/oid/bioid2/
/* TNS Names for OID are in /home/oracle/oid/bioid2/config folder. Tnsname for OID is NOT ORCL. It is OIDDB */ I spent several hours to figure this out. Thanks to APP DBA website.
Below commands unlocks super user account
./oidpasswd unlock_su_acct=true connect=OIDDB
Navigate to folder where ldapmodify resides.
cd /home/oracle/oid/Oracle_IDM1/bin
Create “pwdreset.ldif” file using vi editor. Enter below lines.
dn: cn=orcladmin,cn=Users,dc=us,dc=oracle,dc=com
changetype: modify
replace: userpassword
userpassword: Admin123
Run below command to reset password
./ldapmodify -h obieesampleapp.us.oracle.com -p 3060 -D cn=orcladmin -w Admin123 -f pwdreset.ldif
create pwdpolicydef.ldif file has below
dn:cn=pwdpolicyentry, cn=common,cn=products,cn=oraclecontext
changetype:modify
replace: pwdmaxage
pwdmaxage: 15552000
changetype:modify
replace: pwdexpirewarning
pwdexpirewarning: 1209600
changetype:add
add: pwdgraceloginlimit
pwdgraceloginlimit: 5
Run below command to increase password expiration age.
./ldapmodify -h obieesampleapp.us.oracle.com -p 3060 -D cn=orcladmin -w Admin123 -f pwdpolicydef.ldif
Useful bog http://blog.csdn.net/lele5000/article/details/8057797
Venu Palvai
Thanks for the info. It helped a lot.
Thank you very much Venu. This is really helpful.
Very helpful article Venu..Thanks!
But I am facing an issue in executing the last command(to increase password expiration age)..
Can u pls help..The error I’m getting is:
modifying entry cn=pwdpolicyentry, cn=common,cn=products,cn=oraclecontext
ldap_modify: Undefined attribute type
ldap_modify: matched: cn=Common,cn=Products,cn=OracleContext
ldap_modify: additional info: Attribute replace is not supported in schema.
Can u pls guide me with the solution..Thanks..
It might still work. Can you try restarting BI?
Yup..working fine after restarting BI..Thanks 🙂
Thank you very much!