Changing the PDS User Password
- Article Type: General
- Product: MetaLib
- Product Version: 3
Description:
How can I change the PDS user password?
Resolution:
The explanation for how to do this seems to have dropped out of our 3.13 documentation. It was nicely documented in the 3.12 PDS manual (Section 8 - Changing PDS password). Here's the description:
You need to change the password in the ./dat01/tab_management table, then also add the new password into the tab_service.<institution> table(s), where the metalib_x_server.pl is used.
For example, an AUTHENTICATE service line becomes:
INSTITUTE-CODE LOUGHBOROUGH
SERVICES AUTHENTICATE
PROGRAM-NAME metalib_x_server.pl www.myuni.com,8334,BOR-AUTH,pds,1234
END
In the above example, pds is the username and 1234 is the password.
Change this for the BOR_INFO service as well, and for other institutions that use metalib_x_server.pl
If no new username/password is added to the tab_service.<institution> tables then the default value (pds/pds) is used.
Additional Information
PDS,password
- Article last edited: 10/8/2013