Yes, I agree with bresano. I tried the sample pom.xml and commented out <auth>...</auth> and was able to create/start/stop the domain and update jvm-options.
If commenting out <auth>...</auth> does not work, please post the output of "mvn glassfish:create-domain".
Thanks,
Jane
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