Changing a BO Password via a Web Portal?

Hey everyone

We are currently looking at trying to create a web page that will permit a user to change their BO password from that page rather than logging into the tool.

Why would we do that? Well, we need to allow users to sync-up their passwords with Teradata since we do a pass-thru of the BO login and password to Teradata. Since there is no way right now to support password changes from BO over to Teradata, the thought of a web tool came up.

I have the code needed to change the Teradata side (very simple in fact). I was just curious as to whether anyone has changed a BO password through a web tool in this way? We are currently on 6.1b.

Thanks…
Jeff


JeffPDallas (BOB member since 2004-04-27)

Hi Jeff,
I guess you need to customize your webi using ASP or JSP using the webi SDK.

Sandeep.


chinnu (BOB member since 2002-11-22)

Sandeep

I am not sure if I understand you…are you saying I can “borrow” code from the JSP of WebI to build my own password change portal? I am going to dig around in the SDK to see if I can find something though…

Cheers!
Jeff


JeffPDallas (BOB member since 2004-04-27)

Supervisor has a command-line tool for importing users.
You could create a web-page that generates a valid CSV file with the user information and just call the executable.

I am sure this would be totally unsupported. Not to mention the security risk involved. :slight_smile:

If you could encrypt the password correctly, you could just do a DML statement against the repository.


Jeff Binnig (BOB member since 2004-07-23)