Hi Shing Wai, Ron,
I believe you are the owner of the modules the questions I posed last
week relate to.
I have another related question and was hoping you could help me.
3.
I confirmed that I can use multibyte characters in a password (tried
with asadmin change-master-password). Why do you allow non-ASCII
characters for the password but not for the user name?
Thanks!
Dies
Dies Koper wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are trying to determine what characters GlassFish supports for use as
> in User IDs and passwords in File realm. The characters accepted when
> using asadmin are different from when using the Admin console.
> I have a few questions.
>
> 1.
> The Admin Console has the following comment:
> Name of a user to be granted access to this realm; name can be up to
> 255 characters, must contain only alphanumeric, underscore, dash, or dot
> characters
>
> It is my understanding that "alphanumeric" does not include multibyte
> (Japanese) characters. However, if I include other symbols ('+', etc.)
> I get an error message while if I include Japanese characters
> (multibyte), they are accepted.
> Are multibyte characters supported here or not?
>
> 2.
> Using the asadmin change-admin-password command you cannot change a
> password from or to something less than 8 characters. Using the Admin
> Console (Security>Realms>admin-realm) you /can/ change the password to
> something less than 8 characters (and therefore make it impossible to
> change afterwards with the asadmin command).
> Wouldn't it be better to have the limitation be enforced consistently
> (or not at all)?
>
> Thanks,
> Dies