Hi Kedar,
While, this is a good idea in general, I'm a bit confused on why
some options need no passwords and some need more than 1.
You do not need a password at all to not only stop or start a domain
(why?), but to delete (!) a domain.
On the other hand to create a domain you need 2 passwords: admin and
master.
To add to the above confusion, there is a password and an admin
password for the same [as_]admin command.
My $.02.
-marina
Kedar Mhaswade wrote On 02/22/06 12:52,:
> Hi Marina,
> Good question, although this is not directly related to present
> change as passwordfile has always been there.
> The asadmin commands need several passwords and the way to specify
> those passwords is: AS_ADMIN_password-name. Since none of these can now
> be provided on the command line in clear, they have to be placed in file
> as name value pairs Following are the passwords:
>
> password intended contents of --passwordfile
>
> password => AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=value
> adminpassword=>AS_ADMIN_ADMINPASSWORD=value (used only by create-domain
> command)
> master password=> AS_ADMIN_MASTERPASSWORD=value
> mq password => AS_ADMIN_MQPASSWORD=value
>
> And there are few others.
>
> We will improve the message as you suggested.
>
> Actually, all of this is moot once you use asadmin login command.
> I'd be interested in your feedback on this command. Once you
> successfully "login" [logical equivalent of the GUI's login screen] to a
> server (of course you'd need to start the server using asadmin
> start-domain command), you'd never need to supply any user name and
> passwords. Here is how the user experience changes (we hope this is a
> big plus!):
>
> BEFORE:
> place the password in passfile
> asadmin command-name-1 --user admin --passwordfile passfile ....
> asadmin command-name-2 --user admin --passwordfile passfile ....
> asadmin command-name-3 --user admin --passwordfile passfile ....
> asadmin command-name-4 --user admin --passwordfile passfile ....
>
> AFTER
> asadmin login
> asadmin command-name-1
> asadmin command-name-2
> asadmin command-name-3
> asadmin command-name-4
>
> ....
>
> As the number of commands increase, the usability increases!
>
>
> Regards,
> Kedar
>
>
>
>
> Marina Vatkina wrote:
>
>
>>Kedar,
>>
>>Out of all this information, I can't find how my password file
>>should look like. I get the following (not helpful) error message:
>>
>>...Passwordfile should contain the following format AS_ADMIN_<password
>>option>=<password value>.
>>
>>What is <password option>?
>>
>>thanks,
>>-marina
>>
>>Kedar Mhaswade wrote On 02/16/06 17:31,:
>>
>>
>>
>>>This is II reminder. The Saturday (18 Feb 2006) Build for GlassFish will
>>>have the changes that will reject any password that was provided on
>>>command line in clear.
>>>
>>>If you are used to the promoted GlassFish builds from
>>>glassfish.dev.java.net, promoted build b38 will have these changes.
>>>
>>>Let me know if you see any problems.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Kedar
>>>
>>>
>>>Kedar Mhaswade wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hello All,
>>>> This is to let you know that we are doing a fundamental change to
>>>>the GlassFish admin CLI (aka asadmin) and that is to remove the
>>>>support the (so called) reusable passwords on command invocations.
>>>>Thus, --password on any remote asadmin command will not be supported.
>>>>
>>>>Following links have details:
>>>>
>>>>- The project page --
>>>>https://glassfish.dev.java.net/javaee5/admin-infra/subprojects/asadminlogin/index.html
>>>>
>>>>- The issue # 212 --
>>>>https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=212
>>>>
>>>>Please start modifying your automated scripts if any, using
>>>>--passwordfile. If you can wait, please see if the new feature
>>>>"asadmin login" is useful to you (we believe so) in which case, the
>>>>remote commands may require neither --passwordfile nor will you be
>>>>prompted for the admin password.
>>>>
>>>>Let me know if you have any issues. And yes, spread the word.
>>>>
>>>>It looks like February 15, 2006 is when --password, --adminpassword
>>>>followed by their cleartext values will generate an error. If there is
>>>>any change in the plan, I will let you know in advance.
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>Kedar
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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