Enablign administrative security

When your installing WebSphere Application Server 6.1, the installation process will ask you if you want to enable the administrative security, if you say yes it will let you specify the username password for the admin user. When you enable security during the Installation process, the WAS server will be configured to use file based federated repository


If you dont enable the administrative security at the time of installation, or if you have to disable it for some other reason, then you can re-enable the admin security from WAS Admin console by going to Security - Secure administration, applications, and infrastructure, page and then checking "Enable administrative security" checkbox saving your changes, synchronizing those changes to all the nodes and then restarting all the servers, node agents and DMGR