Update Database Account

URL:
https://<root>/system/database/updateAdminAccount
Methods:
POST
Required Capability:
Access allowed with the "Security and Infrastructure" privilege
Version Introduced:
10.2.1

Description

The updateAdminAccount operation changes the database administrator account credentials. By default, the initial administrator account you define during the Create Site operation is used as the database administrator account. To change just the password for the account, provide the password parameter. If you want to create a completely new account for the database, provide new values for the username and password parameters.

Request parameters

ParameterDetails

username

The new database administrator user name. If this parameter is not provided, only the password for the account is changed.

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username=newdbadmin

password

The new password for the account.

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password=newdbadminpassword

f

The response parameter. The default response parameter is html.

Values: html | json | pjson

Example usage

The following is a sample POST request for the updateAdminAccount operation:

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POST /webadaptor/portaladmin/system/database/updateAdminAccount HTTP/1.1
Host: machine.domain.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: []

username=newdbadmin&password=newdbadminpassword&f=pjson

JSON Response example

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{
  "status": "success",
  "recheckAfterSeconds": 10
}

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