hi,
Similar problem trying to run Liferay on Glassfish with MySQL. Ping worked but ORM layer complaining about No Password supplied.
Solution ,,,, set Url and URL (both were created by default) to
jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/lportal?user=lportal&password=xxxx
restart and it worked.
Don't ask me why....
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