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Re: Administration Console not protected

From: Tim Quinn <tim.quinn_at_oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 09:39:12 -0600

On Nov 6, 2012, at 8:57 AM, Halbani, Avi (Avi Chalbani DWH) wrote:

> I am new to glassfish, and I have to maintain the glassfisch application server. The Glassfisch administration console is not protected and can be accessed from any computer.
This should be true only for somewhat older releases of GlassFish.

What release are you using?

Recent releases allow access only from the same system by default.

Anissa's blog here

        https://blogs.oracle.com/anilam/entry/glassfish_3_1_2_admin

mentions how to set up secure remote access using the console. From the command line you can accomplish the same thing this way: Run

        asadmin change-admin-password

and respond to the command prompts. The documented default admin username is "admin" and the initial password is the empty string. Change the password to some non-empty value.

Then run

        asadmin enable-secure-admin

and then restart the server

        asadmin restart-domain

Now you can access the console remotely, but only by providing a valid admin user and password.

- Tim



> · How can secure the administration console with a username and password?
> · How can I use the admin-relam to enforce login?
> · How can the Administration Console be restricted to localhost?
>
> Thanks for you help