There are some features in WAS Liberty Server (like apiDiscovery-1.0) that require stuff (like keyStore and basicRegistry) that will require passwords. If those passwords are note encoded we get warnings. It is was not clear to me how to encode a password. These are my notes :)
Encoding a password
We need thesecurityUtility command from bin directory of the server installation directory. And simply use encode subcommand. Since I am using the default key store defaultKeyStore everything is very simple:
# This is the location eclipse says my server is cd /Users/ignacio/Documents/ibm/was16.0.0.2/usr # Go to the bin directory cd ../bin/ # encode all my passwords ./securityUtility encode keyStorePwd {xor}NDomDCswLToPKDs= ./securityUtility encode admin {xor}PjsyNjE= ./securityUtility encode member {xor}MjoyPTot
Update the server.xml
Now, instead of passwords in plain text we copy and paste above results. (See my full server.xml)<server>
...
<keyStore id="defaultKeyStore" password="{xor}NDomDCswLToPKDs=" /> <!-- password="keyStorePwd" -->
<basicRegistry>
<user name="admin" password="{xor}PjsyNjE"/>
<user name="member" password="{xor}MjoyPTot"/>
<group name="admins">
<member name="admin"/>
</group>
<group name="member">
<member name="member"/>
</group>
</basicRegistry>
...
</server>
PS:
defaultKeyStore 's password must be "keyStorePwd" other password didn't work for me. I can't remember where exactly I got it but it was a site from IBM documentation somewhere in the past.
Hold on, I don't know where is my server installation directory!In case you installed via eclipse and forgot where it was installed, go the server properties and check the location.
