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Friday, May 6, 2011

User Authentication issue connecting to a different WCS database instance


There are situations when you try to install a websphere commerce developer instance and then try to point it to a development instance of the database there can be issues with the authentication.

I faced an issue where I connected my local environment to the development db instance and was using the same password for the accelerator on both development environment and my local websphere commerce development environment and it was failing to authenticate the password for the user.

To rectify this, ensure that the attribute “MerchantKey” should match in both the wc-server.xml files (local and dev environment). Apparently it seems that the password encryption/matching are done based on the merchant key.

Also, correspondingly update the SiteAdminPassword (wcsadmin).

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