GoldenGate Director Fails To Start After Reinstall, <BEA-000386> <Server subsystem failed. Reason: weblogic.security.SecurityInitializationException: Authentication denied: (Doc ID 1464067.1)

Symptoms

After performing a fresh install of OGG Director server using an existing Director database repository, Director server won't start.  The <Director install>/domain/servers/<hostname>/logs/<hostname>.log shows:

 <Critical> <WebLogicServer> <xxx> <xxx> <main> <> <> <> <1338494029782> <BEA-000386> <Server subsystem failed. Reason: weblogic.security.SecurityInitializationException: Authentication denied: Boot identity not valid; The user name and/or password 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.

Cause

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