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Case

Starting a WebLogic 9.2 instance, I got this message:

Server subsystem failed. Reason: weblogic.security.SecurityInitializationException: Authentication for user weblogic denied

Anyway, I checked the admin login and passwords were OK, since I had never changed them.

Stacktrace

<Mar 18, 2011 11:14:03 AM CET> <Critical> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000386> <Server subsystem failed. Reason: weblogic.security.SecurityInitializationException: Authentication for user weblogic denied
weblogic.security.SecurityInitializationException: Authentication for user weblogic denied
    at weblogic.security.service.CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.doBootAuthorization(CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.java:947)
    at weblogic.security.service.CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.initialize(CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.java:1029)
    at weblogic.security.service.SecurityServiceManager.initialize(SecurityServiceManager.java:854)
    at weblogic.security.SecurityService.start(SecurityService.java:141)
    at weblogic.t3.srvr.SubsystemRequest.run(SubsystemRequest.java:64)

Fix

• Go to $DOMAIN_HOME/servers/admin/data/
• Rename ldap as ldap.OLD
• Restart WebLogic admin
• Then, a file $DOMAIN_HOME/servers/admin/security/boot.properties should appear and contain the encrypted login and passwords.The issue should be fixed.