Changing OWB Repository Password

Question

Hi,
We are using OWB 10.1 version with Oracle 9.2. We maintain 3 repository users like OWB Designer, OWB RUN USER and OWB RUN OWNER. Whenever we get password expiry warning, our mappings fail and get aborted.
As a part of the security policy, repository passwords will be changed regularly. We would like to know the implications of change in the repository passwords,
whether we need to re-deploy the mappings, process flows or any other thing to be
taken care specifically whenever it is changed.
Please give all the details, suggestions related to this and what is the normal
industry practice on this, thank you.
Regards,
Deva

Answer 1

Change password of OWB Repository Owner
The user password can be directly changed in the database using the following sql
alter user <owb repository owner> identified by <password>
Change password of Runtime Repository Owner
Warehouse Builder has a specific procedure to do this for the runtime repository user. The steps are below:
1. Logon to the runtime repository using the old password.
2. Run script <owb home>/owb/rtp/sql/stop_service.sql
3. alter user <repository owner> identified by <new password>
4. Run script <owb home>/owb/rtp/sql/set_repository_password.sql
5. When prompted, specify the new password
6. Run script <owb home>/owb/rtp/sql/start_service.sql
There are no additional steps for Runtime Access User (but if this user is used for starting mapping/processes in scheduling jobs then modified password should be updated in scheduling scripts - this depends on scheduler used)
We dont have to do any deployments for the password changes.
Regards,
Mallee