2015-05-11

Decode/Encode websphere database password

• Locate the file at /usr/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrvMars01/config/cells/mars01Cell01/security.xml

• Find the “authDataEntries” tag and then get the password attribute.

• Open console and goto directory /usr/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer,
  encode:

  java -cp plugins/com.ibm.ws.runtime.jar:lib/bootstrap.jar:runtimes/com.ibm.jaxws.thinclient_7.0.0.jar com.ibm.ws.security.util.PasswordEncoder password

  decode:

  java -cp plugins/com.ibm.ws.runtime.jar:lib/bootstrap.jar:runtimes/com.ibm.jaxws.thinclient_7.0.0.jar com.ibm.ws.security.util.PasswordDecoder {xor}Lz4sLCgwLTs=

Reference:
http://www.sysman.nl/wasdecoder/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7885134/how-to-recover-admin-password-in-websphere-portal-v7
http://weblogic-wonders.com/weblogic/tag/com-ibm-ws-bootstrap-raswsloggerfactory/

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