From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:26:29 PDT

I have the exactly same problem with JDBC Realm.
Until JDBC realm is specified as default realm, I get exception "... javax.security.auth.login.LoginException: Failed file login for [my-user-name]".
When JDBC realm is specified as default realm, authorization works OK.
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