Resetting the SOLIDWORKS Workgroup PDM Administration Password

Article by GoEngineer on Jun 21, 2016

Follow these steps to reset a lost SOLIDWORKS Workgroup PDM admin user password. 

  1. Log in as a Windows user with Administrative rights on the server hosting the SOLIDWORKS Workgroup PDM Vault.
  2. Go to the Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services and Stop the SOLIDWORKS Workgroup PDM Server service.

    SOLIDWORKS Workgroup PDM Admin Password Change

  3. Navigate to the pdmrc folder in the SOLIDWORKS Workgroup PDM vault directory. By default, this is located at C:\VaultData\pdmrc.
  4. First, confirm if the pdmwadmin user is set up as an administrator. In the pdmrc folder, open the file admin.pdmw using Notepad. If the pdmwadmin user is not present, paste the line below into the file.

    pdmwadmin          U           +

    SOLIDWORKS Workgroup PDM Admin pdmw Notepad
    Notepad SOLIDWORKS PDM Admin Password

  5. Open the users.pdmw file using Notepad. If the user has been deleted, paste the line below into the file. If the password for the pdmwadmin user has been changed, then replace the existing line in the file with the line below.

    pdmwadmin       <01>pNOxNT=Nq%OuNt^No^O}NTAN

    SOLIDWORKS PDM Admin Password Change
    PDM Users Admin Password Change Tutorial

  6. To keep the changes that were made, navigate to the data folder in the vault directory (C:\VaultData\data) and delete the file cache.store.

    SOLIDWORKS PDM Reset Lost Admin Password

  7. Start the SOLIDWORKS Workgroup PDM Server service.

    Start SOLIDWORKS PDM Services After Password Reset

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