ADMINISTRATION: HOW TO UNLOCK & RESET SAP* USER IN ORACLE

Under certain circumstances administrator would require to use the user: SAP* to login to the
SAP system. Ex: the administrator login has been locked accidentally and require a super user to
unlock it.

In this sample we'll reset the user "SAP*" in an IDES.

Steps:

1) Example of the administrator and the SAP* user failed to login into system.

2) Login with the OS user "<SID>adm" (ex: eccadm) and connect to sqlplus.
3) Search for the SAP schema used.
SQL command: select OWNER from DBA_TABLES where TABLE_NAME='T000';

4) List the SAP* table. UFLAG not equal to 0 mean account been locked.
SQL command: select UFLAG, BNAME, MANDT from SAPSR3.USR02 where
BNAME='SAP*';

5) Unlock the SAP* password in relevant client.

SQL Command: update SAPSR3.USR02 set UFLAG=0 where BNAME='SAP*' and
MANDT=000;
6) Reset the SAP* password by deleting the relevant row.
SQL Command: delete from SAPSR3.USR02 where BNAME='SAP*' and MANDT=000;

7) Change the profile parameter

Set the parameter "login/no_automatic_user_sapstar=0" either directly in the default.pfl file or
with an user with TCODE: RZ11 permission and reboot the SAP system once the parameter
been changed.
In windows environment: "C:\usr\sap\ECC\SYS\profile\DEFAULT.PFL" add the parameter
at the end of the file.
8) Reboot the SAP system.
9) The system able to access with user: SAP* and password: pass