OAP WebLogic Domain Admin Console Admin Password Change And Restarting Admin Server Errors (Doc ID 3050785.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 07, 2024

Applies to:

Symptoms

After WebLogic admin password change starting the servers by using command domain/bitools/bin/start.sh able to view the below errors in logs.

A MultiException has exceptions. They are:
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.

The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps.

1. Login to WebLogic Console
2. Change the password from security Realms in console.
3. Logout and login to the console with the new password.
4. Stop Admin server from the web logic console and start WebLogic using the command "startwebloic.sh"
5. This prompts for user name and password and entering the details able to start the admin server and login to the console with new user name and password
6. Shut down the admin server from the web logic console and start from the command prompt with startwebloic.sh, it looks for the boot.properties file which does not exist.

Changes

WebLogic password change

Cause

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