bruce dyer [https://community.jboss.org/people/bdyerjboss] created the discussion "Managing passwords with the vault" To view the discussion, visit: https://community.jboss.org/message/780485#780485 -------------------------------------------------------------- I followed the setup steps provided by Anil. Using JBoss7.1.1.Final , urn:jboss:domain:1.2,  standalone mode.  Windows7 x64, jdk 1.7. I get a *'Failed to parse configuration'* error when inserting the <vault>....</vault> node, into a valid standalone.xml.  *WstxIOException: Invalid UTF-8 start byte 0xa0* <vault>         <vault-option name="KEYSTORE_URL" value="c:/jboss-7.1.1/standalone/configuration/vault.keystore"/>        <vault-option name="KEYSTORE_PASSWORD" value="MASK-5WNXs8oEbrs"/>        <vault-option name="KEYSTORE_ALIAS" value="vault"/>        <vault-option name="SALT" value="124385678"/>        <vault-option name="ITERATION_COUNT" value="50"/>        <vault-option name="ENC_FILE_DIR" value="c:/jboss-7.1.1/standalone/vault/"/> </vault> Any suggestions? -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [https://community.jboss.org/message/780485#780485] Start a new discussion in JBoss AS 7 Development at Community [https://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]