This is a good point. I'll be adding this to the next revision of the
admin guide. Can you tell me how this works so I can document it.
Hanan
Lloyd L Chambers wrote:
> That should be the case, if not a bug should be filed.
>
> On Aug 30, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Frank Kieviet wrote:
>
>> No, I don't think so: there's salt used in the encryption to ensure
>> that two
>> encrypted passwords don't yield the same string.
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Vince.Kraemer_at_Sun.COM [mailto:Vince.Kraemer_at_Sun.COM]
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 13:22
>>> To: dev_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
>>> Subject: Re: need some info about the admin-keyfile
>>>
>>> Thanks for the info.
>>>
>>> That is a great start.
>>>
>>> Now comes the tough question:
>>>
>>> If I have two installs on different machines that have the same
>>> password, will the value of the second field be the same in the two
>>> admin-keyfile files?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> vbk
>>>
>>> Hanan.Lang_at_Sun.COM wrote:
>>>
>>>> Vince
>>>> From the Admin Guide: The admin-keyfile initially contains the admin
>>>> user name, the admin password in an encrypted format, and the
>>>> group to
>>>> which this user belongs, which is asadmin by default.
>>>>
>>>> I believe its used to grant users access to administration tools.
>>>>
>>>> HTH,
>>>> Hanan
>>>>
>>>> Vince Kraemer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> what is it used for?
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like there are multiple fields in the file... what are
>>>>> they?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>> vbk
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