Restoring or replacing damaged validation list objects

Periodically, you should save your validation list objects with the other configuration data objects that are used by WebSphere® Application Server. Use this task if you need to restore or replace a damaged validation list object.

1. Replace the encoded passwords with the unencoded value of the password for all of the WebSphere Application Server profiles that use the validation list object.
   To replace the password values, complete the following steps:
   1. Stop each of the servers.
   2. Set the os400.security.password.validation.list.object property for all of the servers to the absolute name of the new validation list that you want to use.
      You can use an existing validation list object or specify a new object. For new validation list objects, create them manually or use the objects that are created automatically when the server is restarted. For more information on manually creating validation list objects, see Manually encoding passwords in properties files.
   3. Edit the configuration files and set each encoded password to the appropriate clear text value.
2. Edit the sas.client.props and soap.client.props files and set each encoded password to the appropriate unencoded value before manually encoding the passwords.
3. Restart the servers for all of the WebSphere Application Server profiles whose validation list objects that are replaced.