If you are worried about your password showing up in clear text in the startup scripts, you can use the storeUserConfig command to generate encrypted userconfigFile and a userKeyFile that you can then use in the „nmConnect“ and „connect“ command.

Place there two files on the protected place and decide to set right permissions

Create storeUserConfig for the Node Manager

Start wlst via the shell script $ORACLE_HOME/oracle_common/common/bin/wlst.sh:

/u01/app/oracle/product/FMW/Oracle_Home/oracle_common/common/bin/wlst.sh