BootIdentityFIle shutdown not working in WLS7,8.1

Question

Hi-
I'm trying to make a script that automatically shuts down a Weblogic Server without
having the username/password combo in the start/stop file or as and env variable.
I tried to follow the instruction per bea's site: http://edocs.bea.com/wls/docs81/admin_ref/cli.html#1131733
that specifies a BootIdentity file. My server starts up just fine reading the
encrypted boot.properties but the sutdown command seems to say that the arguments
are wrong.
I followed what the guidelines say but I don't know if the BootIdentify file has
been depricated/never worked for a command-line shutdown.
I'm using wls 81
Startup: (works)
C:\bea\user_projects\mydomain>"C:\bea\jdk141_02\bin\java" -client -Xms32m -Xmx200m
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Dweblogic.syst em.BootIdentityFile=boot.properties -Dweblogic.Name=myserver
-Dweblogic.ProductionModeEnabled= -Djava.security.policy="C :\bea\weblogic81\server\lib\weblogic.policy"
weblogic.Server
and the Stop command (this doesn't)
C:\bea\user_projects\mydomain>java -Dweblogic.system.BootIdentityFile=c:\bea\user_projects\mydomain\boot.properties
-Dwe blogic.RootDirectory=c:\bea\user_projects\mydomain weblogic.Admin -url t3://localhost:7001
SHUTDOWN -t 2 myserver
returning the error: Weblogic server requires a valid username and password for
the command that you are trying to execute. Please try again
I've even tried getting rid of the RootDirectory directive and using relative
paths for the BootIdentity file since I allways execute it from the domain directory....Doens't
work.
and the boot.properties file (for what its worth):
# Generated by Configuration Wizard on Thu Jul 10 01:42:15 EDT 2003
username={3DES}MG0+9NG3Zxw=
password={3DES}uax0eYNLV6tyMj6I/DI5tw==
Thanks in advance.
-sal

Answer 1

And there is NOTHING out there about it.  Really weird....