Oracle users can be created with either null or no password when IDENTIFIED EXTERNALLY clause is specified when the user is created
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/portal/help/oracle8/network.815/a67766/01_intro.htm
Personal Note: allowing null or no passwords on any db is not a good practise for dba's.
ensuring your database is safe and remains safe from attack is one of the many functions performed by dba's
Martin Gainty
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> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 05:25:00 -0700
> From: glassfish_at_javadesktop.org
> To: users_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
> Subject: Re: GlassFish Server OSE 3.0.1 (build 18) Connection Pool Problem
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> Hi sm,
>
> the issue summary says the following: "asadmin users should be able to use properties with empty value". I don't think this is the same problem as mine. I can set an empty password in the admin console and it is written correctly to the domain.xml.
> The problem is that I get some undocumented null exception, when it is empty.
>
> In different words: Setting the empty password is not a problem. Using it to establish a connection fails. And that is from my point of view a different issue.
>
> I requested the Observer role and can post my issue, when it is approved.
>
> Greetings
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