Fail to start managed server with custom realm

[Khanh Ho]

We created a custom realm and were able to start an administration server fine.
However we get the
following problem when trying to start a managed server:
<Jul 9, 2001 9:50:50 AM EDT> <Emergency> <Server> <Unable to initialize the server:
'Fatal initialization exception
Throwable: java.lang.SecurityException: Authentication for user system denied
in realm wl_realm
java.lang.SecurityException: Authentication for user system denied in realm wl_realm
at weblogic.rmi.internal.AbstractOutboundRequest.sendReceive(AbstractOutboundRequest.java:90)
at weblogic.management.internal.AdminMBeanHomeImpl_WLStub.getMBeanServer(AdminMBeanHomeImpl_WLStub.java:688)
at weblogic.management.Admin.registerManagedHome2AdminHome(Admin.java:1374)
at weblogic.management.Admin.postStart(Admin.java:391)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.initialize(T3Srvr.java:410)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:169)
at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:35)
'>

Anyone encountered this problem?

[Khanh Ho]

After putting in some debug statements, I see that the
managed server did try to boot up using the custom realm and
it was able to authenticate ok with the custom realm. I don't
understand why it tries to authenticate against wl_realm even
after successful authentication with custom realm.

Please help.

[Paul Ferwerda]

By any chance to you have a system user in your custom realm? If you do, and the password doesn't match with what is in the fileRalm then that might be the cause of your problem. Even if you have a
custom realm you always have a fileRealm which defines system and guest for you.

Paul