You are trying to change the password for sap* user, however when you go into
su01 and enter sap* as the user name, the following message is displayed, user
sap* does not exist.
You can delete the SAP* user using ABAP code :-
Delete from usr02 where bname = 'SAP*' and mandt = '***';
Where '***' means your client no.
Then login to your client using password SAP* and password PASS
However, if you delete it, then it will automatically created once again with
password PASS
The userid, SAP*, is delivered with SAP and is available in clients 000 and
001 after the initial installation. In these 2 clients, the default password is
07061992 (which is, by the way, the initial date when R/3 came into being...).
It is given the SAP_ALL user profile and is assigned to the Super user group.
When I say it is "delivered" with SAP, I mean that the userid resides in the SAP
database; there are actually rows in the user tables used to define userids.
If you delete the userid, SAP*, from the database, SAP has this userid
defined in its kernel (the SAP executable code that sits at the operating system
level, i.e., disp+work). When this situation exists, the password defined in
the SAP code for SAP* is PASS. This is necessary when you are performing client
copies for example, as the user information is copied at the end of the process.
You can sign into the client you are creating while a client copy is processing
using SAP* with password PASS (but you should have a good reason to do this -
don't change anything while it's running).
Anyway, if the SAP* userid is missing, you can sign in to the client you want
and simply define it using transaction SU01 and, as I stated above, assign it to
the SUPER user group and give it the SAP_ALL profile. You define its initial
password at this point. If you've forgotten its password and don't have a userid
with sufficient authorization to create/change/delete userid,
then you can use the SQL statements to delete it from the database and then you
can use SAP* with PASS to sign back into the client you want to define it in and
recreate it.
There is also a profile parameter which can override the use of SAP* with
PASS to close this security hole in SAP (login/no_automatic_user_sapstar). When
this parameter is defined either in your DEFAULT.PFL profile or the
instance-specific profile and is set to a value of '1', then the automatic use
of SAP* is deactivated. The only way to reactivate the kernel-defined SAP*
userid at this point would be to stop SAP, change this parameter to a value of 0
(zero), and then
restart SAP.
The default password for SAP* is 06071992. (DDIC has 19920706)
