SSPR config manager not available

  • Document ID:7014954
  • Creation Date:23-Apr-2014
  • Modified Date:04-Jan-2019
    • Micro Focus Products:
      SecureLogin
      Self Service Password Reset

Environment

Self Service Password Reset
SSPR 3.x
SSPR 4.x

Situation

Link to SSPR Configuration Editor is not shown on SSPR page
SSPR configuration has been locked
How to unlock SSPR Configuration Manager

Resolution

For appliance installations of SSPR do the following:
  1. Go to the appliance administrative console at https://myserver.whatever.something.com:9443
  2. Select "Administrative Commands" 
  3. Click "unlock configuration"
After you no longer need configuration to be unlocked be sure to select the  option to lock the configuration when you are done.


For Linux or Windows (i.e. non-appliance) installations of SSPR do the following:

Edit the SSPRConfiguration.xml file.   In Linux, this is found by default in the  Tomcat directory under   webapps/SSPR/WEB-INF.  In Windows, this is found in by default in C:\Program Files\NetIQ Self Service Password Reset\config

Then restart the SSPR service.

Edit the SSPRConfiguration.xml as follows:
Set  "configIsEditable"  to true.  It should look like this:
    <property key="configIsEditable">true</property>

Also, if the configuration password has been forgotten or no longer works, delete the property "configPasswordHash"
    <property key="configPasswordHash">

Additional Information

Note:  SSPRConfiguration.xml can be edited with any text editor that can do UTF8 character encoding.   Be sure to use a texteditor that can save UTF8.  Notepad.exe can not save UTF8; Wordpad.exe can.