In Websphere you can recover encoded password in security.xml using the following method
1. Open the security.xml store under
%\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\
2. Browse to "UserRegisteries" section and check for line "userRegistries xmi" . Compare "Server ID=" valuse, which is WebSphere Admin id specified during configuration.
ServerPassword="{xor}KD4sPjsyNjE=" which is the encoded password for WAS Admin.
3. The next step is to decode the password. Browse the url to decode.
Copy the encoded WebSphere Password without {xor} to decode. Click Decode to show the password.
The password will be decode and displayed as plain text. You can
3 comments:
This is very useful for administrators like me who forgets passwords regularly. However every administrator(even System administrator)can visit these section and decode the password. So is there a way to restrict this?
Good one
This does not work in WAS 8.5
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