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R/3 and AS/400: Changing Administrator Passwords

Ready-to-Run R/3 comes with predefined administrators and other users, at the network domain level, locally on the servers, and within the and R/3 Systems. All these users are delivered with standard passwords.

To make sure that the security of your system is secure, you have to change all the standard passwords as soon as you have finished setting up your R/3 Systems. Thereafter, you should change them at monthly intervals, with the exception of R/3 service accounts and R/3 internal users. You should not change the passwords of these users.

The following tables show the predefined users and their passwords.

Users on PRDSAP

Users on DEVSAP

The nn user profiles are set in such a way that it is not possible to log on to the system and that the password never expires. You do not have to change these passwords. They are listed here for the sake of completeness.

The passwords for the users OPR , OFR , and nn must be the same on both AS/400 systems.

To change the passwords of the predefined AS/400 users, you have to log on to the AS/400. To change R/3 passwords, you have to log on to and .

R/3 Administrators in and in All Clients