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  • 1.  Wasadmin Password reset issues

    Posted 20 days ago

    I could use some assistance.

    Background: We are maintaining a legacy system that runs Websphere 9.0 on multiple servers. This is temporary while we standup our new ELM environment with Liberty. For the most part all the instances of Websphere work as designed and we are able to access the via the wasadmin account. Except one. In order to work within Websphere we have to disave security then enable when done.

    Actions Taken:

    1) Using wsadmin.bat we have changed the wasadmin password. After server restart we still get the login errors.

    2) Again using wsadmin.bat we created a new wasadmin2; disabled security and made it an admin; enabled security and restarted servers. We still got login errors.

    3) We tried all known logins, none worked

    4) Using wsdadmin.bat we changed all passwords; then verified that they were changed in fileregistry.xml. This show the correct modified date but the hash for each password didn't look like the changed.

    The question now is why are none of the logins working, no matter what we try? Where can we look to find the login issues? Has anyone had this problem and/or know how to fix this?

    Thank you.



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    Darron Soren
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  • 2.  RE: Wasadmin Password reset issues

    Posted 17 days ago

    Hello Darron,

      Have you try the enxt tips
      
      https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-nd/9.0.5?topic=configurations-access-problems-after-enabling-security
      
      Have you enabled secutiry Traces?
      
      https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/mustgather-core-security-problems-websphere-traditional-and-liberty
      
      Hope this helps
      
    regards



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    Gabriel Aberasturi
    Middleware Architect
    Versia Sistemas TI
    Barakaldo
    682701714
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  • 3.  RE: Wasadmin Password reset issues

    Posted 17 days ago

    Hello Darron,

    in addition to Gabriel's reply - what kind of WAS are you using? Standalone server or a DMGR managed cell?

    From your problem description I assume you are using federated repositories with file registry only? Or do you have further registries configured? What does your security config look like? What are the exact error message(s) you get?



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    Hermann Huebler
    Alpium IT Solutions GmbH
    Vienna
    Austria

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