Disable Security in IBM WebSphere Application Server

There might be a situation where you need to disable the security to get into WAS DMGR console. This usually happens when: –

• You forget the credential
• Someone changed the password
• Messed up the SSL/Security configuration or security.xml

Are you in a situation where you need to get into WAS Deployment Manager without the credential?

There are two ways to disable the security. So choose the one you like.

First procedure – using wsadmin

• Go to DMGR Profile path and bin folder
• Execute wsadmin.sh to get wsadmin prompt

[root@localhost bin]# ./wsadmin.sh
WASX7209I: Connected to process "dmgr" on node localhostCellManager01 using SOAP connector; The type of process is: DeploymentManager
WASX7029I: For help, enter: "$Help help"
wsadmin>

• Execute securityoff command as shown below

wsadmin>securityoff
LOCAL OS security is off now but you need to restart server1 to make it affected.
wsadmin>

• Execute exit command to get out from wsadmin utility
• Restart the DMGR to get this effective

Try to access WAS DMGR Console now, and it shouldn’t prompt for any credential.

Second procedure – modifying security.xml

Take a backup of security.xml, it’s located under DMGR profile/config/cells/CellName. If you are not sure, you can use find command to search security.xml

• Modify security.xml using the vi editor
• Search for enabled=true (as shown below)

• Change true to false (as shown below)

• Save the file and restart the DMGR

That’s it. Now you can access WAS DMGR without a password.

Tip: to put the security back, you need to do following….

• Invoke wsadmin.sh
• Execute securityon command
• Restart the DMGR

I hope one of the above procedures help you in disabling security to get into WAS Admin console.

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