How to recover admin password in websphere portal v7?

Question

I have forgotten the password to enter the websphere portal as admin.How to recover the password?..PLease help in this

Answer 1

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"