changing the startup password

[willa6666]

I am running weblogic 8.1.4 on a redhat box, when i change the weblogic password in the web console an dthen stop the server i cant restart it again, I get this message:

<Sep 16, 2006 12:17:42 PM EDT> <Critical> <Security> <BEA-090402> <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.>
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The WebLogic Server did not start up properly.
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.

SO i need to chnag ethe encrypted passwor din the boot.properties file but i dont know how to.

any ideas?

 

[chgwhat]

The first time the updated boot identity file is used to start the server, these new values are encrypted.
update file with non-encrypted values, and start server.

Tony ... aka chgwhat

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