WLS SECURITY

Generating the Adminstrator password for WLS server

Steps:

1: open a command prompt.

2: go to the %BEA_HOME%/user_projects/domains/base_domain/bin dir
cd %BEA_HOME%/user_projects/domains/base_domain/bin

3: run the setDomainEnv.cmd file.
4: This will bring you to base_domain dir. Now run the following command:
java weblogic.security.utils.AdminAccount sandeep sandeep11 .

Do not forget to use the last “.” which is going to inform the utility to create the DefaultAuthenticatorInit.ldift in the Domain_Home dir.

5: Also try to use a password with atleast 8 chars and with at least one numeric digit.

6: then rename the DefaultAuthenticatorInit.ldift that is already present in the %Domain_Home %/security dir to
DefaultAuthenticatorInit_old.ldift and place the newly generated DefaultAuthenticatorInit.ldift file in the %Domain_Home %/security dir.

7: Also delete the %Domain_Home %/servers/AdminServer/security/boot.properties file.

8: Rename the %Domain_Home %/servers/AdminServer/data/ldap/DefaultAuthenticatormyrealmInit.initialized file to DefaultAuthenticatormyrealmInit_old.initialized

9: Now you can try to start the Admin Server with through the command prompt using startWeblogic.cmd file.

3 Comments

  1. Anonymous
    Posted July 22, 2011 at 4:50 am | Permalink

    Hi sandeep,
    I trying to reset the admin server password

    so…tried doing it same in unix but faced this error …please let me know

    Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: weblogic/security/utils/AdminAccount
    Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: weblogic.security.utils.AdminAccount
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
    Could not find the main class: weblogic.security.utils.AdminAccount. Program will exit.

  2. weblogictips
    Posted July 24, 2011 at 4:09 pm | Permalink

    It clearly means that the environment variable was not set properly.
    Check the classpath : echo $CLASSPATH —- weblogic.jar should be there in the classpath.

    did you executed the setDomainEnv.sh on the shell prompt ?
    . ./setDomainEnv.sh

    Do not forget to use the trailing “.” while running the setDomainEnv.sh.

  3. tony
    Posted July 27, 2011 at 11:49 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the info. I inadvertently removed the admin user from the administrators group in myrealm and the server wouldn’t start. Your instructions have helped tremendously!

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