Friday, July 17, 2009

Recovering Weblogic Domain administrator password

The scenario - I have installed WLS and forgotten the weblogic domain admin password -

A big thanks to my colleague Silviu for this workaround -

1. At the command line, change directory to the domain and run the setEnv or setDomainEnv script to set the PATH and CLASSPATH.
2. cd /security
3. mv DefaultAuthenticatorInit.ldift DefaultAuthenticatorInit.ldift_BKP
4. run java weblogic.security.utils.AdminAccount ./
-above command will Create a new DefaultAuthenticatorInit.ldift

4. cd /servers//data/ldap
5. mv DefaultAuthenticatormyrealmInit.initialized DefaultAuthenticatormyrealmInit.initialized_BKP
6. Restart the Admin Server.
7. Login with new username/password

* To change the old admin user identity, log into the admin console and change the password from console.

Possible error, due to missing library? -->( Error: Native Library(terminalio) to read the password securely from commandline is not found).

add -Dweblogic.management.allowPasswordEcho=true in setDomainEnv script to be allowed to enter the password in echo mode.

After that, log in as the new user and change the password of user weblogic.
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3 comments:

  1. Jehanzeb QayyumNovember 5, 2010 at 10:09 AM

    i have followed the above steps. but now i can login+boot with both default password i.e. weblogic and new password. Does not new password is supposed to overwrite default weblogic pass?

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  2. Niall CommiskeyNovember 6, 2010 at 1:51 PM

    Hi Jehanzeb,

    I'll check this out.

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  3. Niall CommiskeyNovember 8, 2010 at 8:03 AM

    Essentially Jehanzeb you have created a new "temp" admin user with a new admin pwd. You log in as this new admin user and re-set the password for the user "weblogic". After doing this you can log in as weblogic and delete the "temp" admin user. You do not need it anymore.

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