Spotlight on GlassFish 4.1' is a series of posts that highlights specific enhancements of the latest GF release, GlassFish 4.1. It could be a new feature, a fix, a behavior change, a tip, etc.
#11 Enable Remote Admin
When you unzip GlassFish 4.1, the Administration user has no password set. This was introduced quite some time ago to simplify the developer experience. For obvious security reasons, the remote admin capabilities are also disabled. So the default Admin user is 'admin' and its password is empty.
To enable remote Admin, you should first define a password for the admin user and then enable remote admin. The trick is that the change-admin-password command is asking the admin password, in that case you should leave it empty.
./asadmin change-admin-password
Enter admin user name [default: admin]> [leave it empty to use the default value]
Enter the admin password> [make sure to leave this field empty]
Enter the new admin password> myNewPassword
Enter the new admin password again> myNewPassword
Command change-admin-password execute
You can enable the securre-admin.
./asadmin enable-secure-admin
Enter admin password for user "admin"> [fill in the new password you have defined]
You must restart all running servers for the change in secure admin to take effect.
Command enable-secure-admin executed successfully.
And just restart the domain and you are all set!
./asadmin restart-domain domain1
The 'empty admin password' is mentionned in the initial page of the first chapter of the Administration Guide.
