Steps for Recovering or Decrypting the forgotten WebLogic Server Admin Password

Note: We can do this only if we have boot.properties file under $DOMAIN_HOME/servers/AdminServer/security

Create a script decrypt_password.py in $DOMAIN_HOME/security directory 

Copy and paste the below code into it and save the file:

from weblogic.security.internal import *

from weblogic.security.internal.encryption import *

encryptionService = SerializedSystemIni.getEncryptionService(".")

clearOrEncryptService = ClearOrEncryptedService(encryptionService)

# Take encrypt password from user

pwd = raw_input("Paste encrypted password ({AES}fk9EK...): ")

# Delete unnecessary escape characters

preppwd = pwd.replace("\\", "")

# Display password

print "Decrypted string is: " + clearOrEncryptService.decrypt(preppwd)

Save and close the file

Set the environment variables as below:

Get encrypted username and password from boot.properties file of AdminServer as below:

Username: 

Password:

Copy this encrypted password and keep it with you

Decrypting the weblogic server admin password:

Navigate to $DOMAIN_HOME/security directory and run the following command to start decryption:

It will ask us to paste the encrypted password,

Paste the encrypted password we get above and click enter

We will get the decrypted password as below: