I have forgotten the password to enter the websphere portal as admin.How to recover the password?..PLease help in this
3 Answers
How to encode your password in Websphere 6 or 7
Step 1: Open up your console and navigate to the folder that contains "ws_runtime.jar". Use a search tool to find it.
Step 2: java -cp ws_runtime.jar com.ibm.ws.security.util.PasswordEncoder "password"
Example:
Input
java -cp ws_runtime.jar com.ibm.ws.security.util.PasswordEncoder "password"
Output
decoded password == "password", encoded password == "{xor}Lz4sLCgwLTs="
How to decode your password in Websphere 6 or 7
Step 1: Location and open "security.xml". It will be folder with a similar path like so "runtime\..?..\PROFILE_ACCOUNT\...?..\workspace\..?..\". Use a search tool to find it.
Step 2: In "security.xml", find the "authDataEntries" tag and then get the password attribute.
Step 3: Open up your console and navigate to the folder that contains "ws_runtime.jar". Use a search tool to find it.
Step 4: java -cp ws_runtime.jar com.ibm.ws.security.util.PasswordDecoder PASSWORD_ATTIBUTE
Example:
Input
java -cp ws_runtime.jar com.ibm.ws.security.util.PasswordDecoder {xor}Lz4sLCgwLTs=
Output
encoded password == "{xor}Lz4sLCgwLTs=", decoded password == "password"

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