Login to Websphere without wasadmin password

Login to Websphere admin console without password:DK®

Questions : Forgot wasadmin password and cannot access WebSphere Application Server administrative console. Resetting wasadmin password when the browser console does not work with current passwords. This method is disables the WAS application security to disable the federated repositories.DK®

WARNING: Please use this as the last resort and make sure the server is not in the middle of processing any transactions.DK®

Solution1:DK®

Go to your WAS-bin directory using a command prompt

Step 1) Navigate via command prompt to <wp_profile_root>/bin

cd {InstallDirectory}/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/bin

Step 2) ./wsadmin.sh -conntype NONE

Step 3) wsadmin> securityoff

Step 4) wsadmin>$AdminConfig save

Step 5) wsadmin> exit

Restart WAS and you should be able to login without using any password.DK®

Solution: 2

Go to your WAS directory using a command prompt :

Step1) cd  {WebsphereHome}/AppServer/profiles/InfoSphere/config/cells/

or

#cd /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/InfoSphere/config/cells/

Step2)# ls -lrt  -> you will get one directory for respective host name. got t

Step3)# cd {ETLServerHostName}Node01Cell --> i.e #cd DEVTrainingSrvNode01Cell

Step4)# vi security.xml  -> Edit security.xml file. change the values "enabled=false" and save the file.

Restart WAS and you should be able to login to websphere admin console or command prompt without using any password.

cd /local/apps/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/bin

./stopServer.sh server1 -username wasadmin

Then login with "root" user to start the services

cd /local/apps/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/bin

./startServer.sh server1

Sometimes above mentioned method is not working then Stop/Start using Alternate method:DK®

This method don’t need wasadmin password to start/stop.

cd /etc/rc2.d

./S85ISFServer stop

./S85ISFServer start

Sometimes above mentioned methods are not working then find the websphere process id using below command.DK®

ps -ef | grep -i server1

kill the process id use kill -9 "processid"

Now you can login to websphere console "without password".DK®

Once all required setting completed on websphere then you can enable the

"Enable administrative security" from websphere console to enable the password.DK®

Refer below link as well:

Click here to know how to change websphere wasadmin password or disable security