Essbase passwords

Hi,
One of our trainers as inadvertently set up Essbase with different passwords through the install.
Now the Essbase cluster has one password and all of the sample databases have another password.
Is there an easy way, short of full uninstall and reinstall, to synchronise all the passwords.
n.b. We have both passwords currently, the database level password is not lost.
thanks for your input,
Robert.

Sorry which version is this, was Essbase was deployed in Standalone mode.
When you migrate to shared services you have the following options with passwords
Password creation settings—For native Shared Services users, specify how the passwords should be created for the Shared Services users when they are migrated:
    Auto-generated—Automatically generates new passwords for users being migrated to Shared Services. The passwords are recorded in the text file specified in the text box. You must specify the extension for the file as .txt. You can also browse to the location of an existing password file to append new passwords to it.
    Use native user name as password—Assigns the native user name as the password for each user being migrated to Shared Services. During migration, the user name is converted to an all lowercase password. For example, a native user named "Mark" will have "mark" as their password after migration.
    Password and Confirm password—Specifies and confirm, respectively, a new password for all users created in Shared Services. You must specify the same password for all users being migrated.Cheers
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