BO 4.0 retrieve user password

[Former Member]

Hi all,

Is there any way how we can find out the password of a particular user in BO 4.0 CMC? In case the user forgets the password then only an administrator can reset the password?

regards,

Sridhar

[former_member182521 · Accepted solution]

Sridhar, It is not possible to see the password by any means in businessobjects. Regards Mani

[former_member184468]

Passwords are hashed, for details on usage of cryptography in BI4.x you can refer to this link here.

http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2012/02/11/encryption-data-security-in-bi-40

Storing a password for the purpose of authentication in a format where the original password can be retrieved is very bad security practice and not something we do.

As others have said above, you can have someone reset it.  BI has a concept of delegated administration, so you can create specific users who will have rights to administer users and reset their passwords, without requiring full administration rights.   To do this, grant rights to the special user administrator on the user that they will administer (or on the user management section in CMC, click 'manage top level security' and assign the rights there.).

Even better is to connect to your active directory/LDAP and setup single signon to avoid password management all together.

[Former Member]

Nobody can or should see any users passwords. The admin or a user with admin rights would have to go into the Account Manager of the user in CMC under users & groups to reset the users password to any default. The user can then change the default password to his/her desired password at the next logon. Makes sense?

[Former Member]

You will need to take the permission of  administrator or else users belonging to administrator group who can reset end user password.

Thats the recommended approach.