How to unlock or change weblogic admin console credential?

If your admin credential to login to weblogic console is locked up, this blog will definitely help you to unlock your credential.

Step-1: Firstly, open command prompt and navigate to below path - it will be little different for your system - you might get the actual path from oracle folder where the installed weblogic is placed.

C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_projects\domains\nestedcode\bin

Now  Execute setDomainEnv.cmd command.

Step-2: Now go to following path : C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_projects\domains\nestedcode\security>

and run dir command, it should show the below folder structure.

C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_projects\domains\nestedcode\security>dir
 Volume in drive C is Windows
 Volume Serial Number is 54CB-B9CE

 Directory of C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_projects\domains\nestedcode\security

28-12-2019  14:08    <DIR>          .
28-12-2019  14:08    <DIR>          ..
28-12-2019  14:08             3,408 DefaultAuthenticatorInit.ldift
28-12-2019  14:05             2,822 DefaultRoleMapperInit.ldift
28-12-2019  14:05             2,340 DemoIdentity.jks
28-12-2019  14:05                80 SerializedSystemIni.dat
28-12-2019  14:05            31,802 XACMLRoleMapperInit.ldift
               5 File(s)         40,452 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  658,015,309,824 bytes free

Step-3: Now time to fire the below command to rename following directory

C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_projects\domains\nestedcode\security>rename DefaultAuthenticatorInit.ldift DefaultAuthenticatorInit_old.ldift

If you execute dir now below folder structure should be available now.

C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_projects\domains\nestedcode\security>dir

 Volume in drive C is Windows

 Volume Serial Number is 54CB-B9CE

 Directory of C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_projects\domains\nestedcode\security

01-05-2020  09:28    <DIR>          .

01-05-2020  09:28    <DIR>          ..

28-12-2019  14:08             3,408 DefaultAuthenticatorInit_old.ldift

28-12-2019  14:05             2,822 DefaultRoleMapperInit.ldift

28-12-2019  14:05             2,340 DemoIdentity.jks

28-12-2019  14:05                80 SerializedSystemIni.dat

28-12-2019  14:05            31,802 XACMLRoleMapperInit.ldift

               5 File(s)         40,452 bytes

               2 Dir(s)  658,023,038,976 bytes free

Step-4: Execute the below command to update new password for weblogic account. Note there is a (.) dot after password123 - which means to update in current directory.

C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_projects\domains\nestedcode\security>java weblogic.security.utils.AdminAccount weblogic password123 .

Step-5: Update the below file with username and password 

path - C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_projects\domains\nestedcode\servers\AdminServer\security

boot.properties

password=password123

username=weblogic

Step-6: Rename ldap folder using below command.

C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_projects\domains\nestedcode\servers\AdminServer\data>rename ldap ldap_old

C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_projects\domains\nestedcode\servers\AdminServer\data>dir

 Volume in drive C is Windows

 Volume Serial Number is 54CB-B9CE

 Directory of C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_projects\domains\nestedcode\servers\AdminServer\data

01-05-2020  09:35    <DIR>          .

01-05-2020  09:35    <DIR>          ..

28-12-2019  14:10    <DIR>          console

28-12-2019  14:08    <DIR>          ldap_old

28-12-2019  14:08    <DIR>          store

               0 File(s)              0 bytes

               5 Dir(s)  658,022,256,640 bytes free

Step-7: All good; now start the admin console 

C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_projects\domains\nestedcode\bin>startWebLogic.cmd

you should be able to see the below log in cmd screen

<1 May, 2020 9:42:24,273 AM IST> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000360> <The server started in RUNNING mode.>

<1 May, 2020 9:42:24,289 AM IST> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to RUNNING.>

Still if you are facing any issue please let me know in below comment box or email at mailusqueries@gmail.com