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Re: different behaviors for admin user without password

From: Bill Shannon <bill.shannon_at_sun.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:29:53 -0700

Shing Wai Chan wrote on 09/16/09 14:20:
> Hi,
>
> I find that Admin GUI and (Admin CLI, REST) behave differently for
> admin user without password.
>
> Scenario 1:
> There is only one admin user with name "admin" without password.
> Admin GUI, CLI and REST do not prompt for the password.
>
> Scenario 2:
> There is only one admin user with name "anonymous" without password.
> Admin GUI does not prompt for the password.
> CLI and REST "do prompt" for the (empty) password.
>
> So, Admin GUI and (Admin CLI, REST) do behave differently.
> I think they should be consistent.

How are you running the admin CLI? Are you specifying "--user anonymous"?
Do you have AS_ADMIN_USER set in your environment? Do you have an entry
in ~/.asadminpass for the server you're connecting to?