EPM 11.2.x - Foundation Services is Not Starting With Error "Authentication denied: Boot identity not valid. The user name or password or both from the boot identity file (boot.properties) is not valid" (Doc ID 3044068.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 04, 2024

Applies to:

Symptoms

When attempting to start FoundationServices, it fails and the following error is seen in the FoundationServices log file -

ERROR
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weblogic.security.SecurityInitializationException: Authentication denied: Boot identity not valid. The user name or password or both from the boot identity file (boot.properties) is not valid. The boot identity may have been changed since the boot identity file was created. Please edit and update the boot identity file with the proper values of username and password. The first time the updated boot identity file is used to start the server, these new values are encrypted.

javax.security.auth.login.FailedLoginException: [Security:090938]Authentication failure: The specified user failed to log in. The issue could be because of an incorrect password in boot.properties file or a corrupted boot.properties file. weblogic.security.providers.authentication.LDAPAtnDelegateException: [Security:090295]caught unexpected exception, No such object

Cause

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