How to change Oncommand Workflow Automation 5.1 user passwords

Applies to

OnCommand Workflow Automation (WFA) 5.1 and above

Description

• The intent of this article is to list out the steps of changing OnCommand Workflow Automation built-in user passwords.
• The OnCommand Workflow Automation built-in users are:

1. Admin
2. WFAuser
3. Restricteduser
4. Systemuser
5. MySQL-Root-User

• When OnCommand Workflow Automation is installed on a Linux or a Windows host, 3 database users are created in the WFA database.
• The credentials for these users were:

User name : wfa password : Wfa123
User Name : restricted, password : restricted123
User Name : system123, password: system123

• Before OnCommand Workflow Automation 5.1, these users had default passwords (as above) which were same for all the installs of OnCommand Workflow Automation. This was a security issue.
• To fix the above security issue, where WFA is installed with users having default username and password. Starting WFA 5.1, WFA is auto-generating the passwords for above three users. The password will be a randomly generated 10 characters long alphanumeric string.
• We will also cover how to change the password for WFA "admin"  and "MySQL" root user password.