Jesse Hazen [http://community.jboss.org/people/jesse.hazen] created the discussion "Re: test passwords encrypted with org.jboss.resource.security.SecureIdentityLoginModule" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/596331#596331 -------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not entirely sure how to test the connection (I googled "test jdbc connection oracle" and found a few oracle.com articles that you may want to take a look at, but I don't know if they'll help). But, if your JBoss box can still connect to the Oracle box, and you followed the configuration in the guide you mentioned, then either the username or the password is wrong. You said that "authentication fails." On AS 5.1.0 if you input an invalid encrypted password in your login-config, and start the server, during startup there will be an error saying Authentication Failed. Is this the error you are referring to? Just want to make sure I understand where you are seeing the failure. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/596331#596331] Start a new discussion in Datasource Configuration at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]