IBM WebSphere and InfoSphere Information Server Update LDAP Bind Password (after resetting externally)
September 19, 2018
InfoSphere 11.5, InfoSphere Information Server, InfoSphere Server 11.5, WebSphere
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- Encode your new password by this site and copy the new encoded password:
http://strelitzia.net/wasXORdecoder/wasXORdecoder.html
On your WebSphere server, edit the wim-config.xml and update the saved encoded value with the new value from the webpage above:
- cd /opt/IBM/WebSphere9/AppServer/profiles/InfoSphere/config/cells/<cell_name_here>/wim/config
- vim wim-config.xml
- search for “xor”
- Find this section bindPassword=”{xor}a34adst565trFxUXbdasdsadf8″ and update the password value with the result from the webpage above.
- Save the file and restart WebSphere.
See this page for more information and tips:
WebSphere – The Basics on Security, Directories and Federated Repositories
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