How to enable user to change the password for their account in OBIEE 12c

Mihajlo

Hello everybody,

In OBIEE version 12c (12.2.1.2.0) we need an option for each user to be able to change his own password (f.e. via "My Account" tab). We are fimiliar with changing password through Weblogic console with admin being the one to do it and we would like the workaround, so that the users can do it themselves.

Thanks very much in advance !

BR, Mihajlo

Gianni Ceresa

This isn't a feature of the tool.

The embedded lightweight LDAP into Weblogic is there mainly for development sandboxes. OBIEE is an enterprise platform and the ideal setup is to link to the enterprise directory service (Active Directory, LDAP or your own solution).

OBIEE outsource the task to manage users and their authentication to the enterprise tool in charge of that in the company.

OBIEE never had a password management feature accessible to end users. There were workaround in old versions to do that, but this isn't a feature of the product.

[Deleted User]

https://community.oracle.com/tech/apps-infra/discussion/4477102/how-to-enable-user-to-change-the-password-for-their-account-in-obiee-12c

As Gianni said that's not an out of the box functionality and you should think about whether that approach is the optimal one (vs using a corporate LDAP/MSAD).

However there is the possibility to utilize the approach from previous versions:

https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/10/changing-your-password-in-obiee-11g/

Mihajlo

Hello guys,

Sry for late reply, i was absent for a time, thanks for the help, I understand the situation, we needed the confirmation that the password cannot be changed by the end user as the OOB feature, since our customer insisted on this approach ! Thanks once again, i suppose corporate LDAP will be used at the end.

BR, Mihajlo

[Deleted User]

https://community.oracle.com/tech/apps-infra/discussion/comment/16775519#Comment_16775519

Have you read what I posted above? You can use the same MBean yourself that WLS uses in the background to affect a password change.

It is technologically possible, just not recommendable.