Recovering the data source password

The same way that the WebLogic Administrator password is recoverable, the data source password can be retrieved as well.

In this recipe, the ds-nonXA data source with the JNDI name jdbc/non-XA will be used to retrieve the password.

Getting ready

The encrypted password must be retrieved from the JDBC configuration files in the $DOMAIN_HOME/config/jdbc directory. To decrypt the password, use WLST.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to recover the data source password:

  1. Log in as a wls user to shell and open the $DOMAIN_HOME/config/config.xml file to get the JDBC configuration filename.
    [wls@prod01]$ cd $DOMAIN_HOME/config
[wls@prod01]$ vi config.xml
  2. Locate the <jdbc-system-resource> tag of the ds-nonXA data ...

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