How-to: Remove WebLogic username and password request when accessing Dynamo

When accessing Dynamo (/dyn/admin) you need to inform a Nucleus authentication and also need to inform an WebLogic username and password. This is annoying and in addition to it is a security problem, because you need to share a valid Weblogic authentication in order to access Dynamo.

Step-by-step guide

In order to remove the WebLogic username and password request when accessing Dynamo you need to:

1. Add the enforce-valid-basic-auth-credentials inside <security-configuration> tag in WebLogic config.xml

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<security-configuration> … <enforce-valid-basic-auth-credentials>false</enforce-valid-basic-auth-credentials> </security-configuration>

To read more about enforce-valid-basic-auth-credentials please check the official doc here http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24329_01/web.1211/e24497/compat.htm#WLUPG214