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Re: Problems running QLook: Was: HEADS UP: Changes to GlassFish admin CLI ...

From: Kedar Mhaswade <kedar.mhaswade_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:34:25 -0800

Marina,
    I understand your frustration. Sorry about the same.
    But there was a bug introduced (6388717) that causes this problem.
Prashanth is working on fixing it.
    For now, could you please do the following:

- asadmin start-domain --user <admin-user-name>?

    Please let me know what happens.

Regards,
Kedar


Marina Vatkina wrote:

>Kedar,
>
>Now it's really bad. How can I run QLook? Whatever I do, it fails
>to start a domain.
>
>I tried:
>a) to start a domain with --savemasterpassword=true
>b) to do asadmin login (btw, do I need to repeat it after
>each restart, as I need to stop a domain to run QLook)
>
>There are no directions in either the web page
>(https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/GuidelinesandConventions.html#Quicklook_Tests)
>or the QuickLook-README.txt under appserv-tests.
>
>thanks,
>-marina
>
>Marina Vatkina wrote On 02/22/06 14:50,:
>
>
>>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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