Customer wants to use obfuscated password for LDAP Based User Repository in hawk webconsole. But as there is defect (HK-5106) , user can't set the obfuscated password in web.xml. Otherwise, you will see the exceptions:
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ERROR localhost-startStop-1 [HawkWebconsole.security] - An error occurred, while decrypting LDAP password.
java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access field org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.SINGLETON from class org.slf4j.LoggerFactory

ERROR localhost-startStop-1 [HawkWebconsole.request.filter] - Cannot get Instance of Authentication Provider.
java.lang.SecurityException: An error occurred, while decrypting LDAP password, either password not obfuscated or not valid.

ERROR localhost-startStop-1 [HawkWebconsole.security] - An error occurred, while decrypting LDAP password.java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.slf4j.helpers.MessageFormatter.format(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/String; 
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Use obfuscated password for LDAP Based User Repository in hawk webconsole

All supported platforms

Replace the following two jars: with the old one: in the following two places: You can find the old jars in <hawk_home>/lib/compat.