Disabling global security in the WebSphere Application Server

You can disable security using fallowing  3 ways 

1. Disabling WAS security by editing the configuration file
2. wsadmin.sh utility 
3. Administrative Console 

1. Go to WAS_HOME/profiles/<profileName>/config/cells/<cellName>/

Edit the security.xml file and change the enabled value to false

Save and restart servers.

NOTE: To restart the servers, you will first need to manually kill the java process since security is still enabled in the currently running process.

2. Using wsadmin utility

To reset the password using wsadmin tool:-

restart dmgr and synchronize  to nodes.


3. Administrative Console 

open admin console. 

goto security

Select "Global  security"

Uncheck the "Enable application security" checkbox

Save the settings and synchronize and restart