The Case Have you ever had the problem that you can not login in https://<host>:7001/console as weblogic user, no matter you did it a hundred times before? The application keeps refusing your login, no matter your user/password are correct? The following annoying exception appears: User: webogic, failed to be authenticated. Not too helpful, since you […]
Have you ever had the problem that you can not login inhttps://<host>:7001/console as weblogic user, no matter you did it a hundred times before?
The application keeps refusing your login, no matter your user/password are correct? The following annoying exception appears:
User: webogic, failed to be authenticated.
Not too helpful, since you know that your credentials are valid.
The Study
Basically, they suggest deleting files and restarting managed server. I`m pretty sure they will help.
But I was convinced that there is more simple way.
I also was toо lazy at that point to do a difficult solution.
The Inspiration
Since I knew my credentials are correct I did not want to delete files, restart servers and so on. I suspected something got corrupted for weblogic user.
One of my initial thoughts was that weblogic simply got locked.
This link gave me the inspiration I needed:
Initially, I had some difficulties finding the Security screen and this is why I will add a couple of screenshots.
Go to Security. Go to Unlock User.
Type ‘weblogic’ Hit Save. The Magic happened.
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Go to Security. Go to Unlock User.
Type ‘weblogic’ 
Hit Save. The Magic happened.
