Restore Oracle Application Server ias_admin password ?

Just go to the directory $ORACLE_HOME/sysman/j2ee/conf. In this directory you'll find the configuration file jazn-data.xml. Inside this configuration file you'll find the definition of the ias_admin user including his encrypted password:

Here's my own ORACLE_Home Path : c:\oracle\FRHome_1\sysman\j2ee\config\jazn-data.xml

• snippet from jazn-data.xml
  

  <users>
  ...
  <user>
  <name>ias_admin</name>
  <credentials>{903}YdvTMA...</credentials>
  </user></users>

Inside the tag <credentials> you see the encrypted password of the ias_admin. To reset the password, just change the value inside the tag <credentials> as follows:

• snippet from jazn-data.xml
  

  
  <users>
  ...
  <user>
  <name>ias_admin</name>
  <credentials>!mynewpassword1</credentials>
  </user></users>
  

The new password you have to provide in clear text has to start with a "!". Be aware that the new password must match the password rules: minimum 6 signs and one sign must be a number. After your changes, stop the ASC and restart it with following commands:

• emctl stop iasconsole
• emctl start iasconsole

Now you can login with your new password and inside the jazn-data.xml the provided password in clear text is automatically changed into an encrypted password.

Thanks to Dirk  Nachbar