How to change WSO2 carbon product password using SHELL script

Sometimes users may forget the admin user password and need to change the admin user password. For this kind of a use case we can use the shell script ("chpasswd.sh") which shipped with WSO2 Carbon products.

I will share the steps on changing password on BAM 2.5.0 which configure to use mysql database as the user management datasource.

1) Open a command prompt and go to the <WSO2_BAM>/bin folder on the machine that hosts the Carbon server.
2) You can find "chpasswd.sh" inside the bin folder
3) Then execute the chpasswd.sh with following command line options.

--db-url (The database URL)

--db-driver (The database driver class)

--db-username (The username for the database)

--db-password (The password for the database)

--username (The username of the user whose password is to be changed. If this is not given, you will be prompted for this field later.)

--new-password (The new password of the user whose password is to be changed. If this is not given, you will be prompted for this field later.)

Example -

./chpasswd.sh  --db-driver "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" --db-url "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/BAMDB"  --db-username "root" --db-password "root" --username "admin" --new-password "admin1234"

Note - Please shut down the WSo2 BAM server before execute the shpasswd.sh and if you got error "Database driver not found in classpath" please add the DB driver to the <WSO2_BAM>/lib folder and execute the command.

If success, You will see following output.

Password updated successfully