Production tips#7 : Password Change in Glassfish SOLVED

Changing password in Glassfish Server can be strange sometime especially everything you do seems not to work. In this example I will focus on the case of Glassfish Server 3.0 or 3+ . I haven't yet tested on other versions. Before throwing some commands against the asadmin shell there are some important things that you need to know or at least be aware of.

• change-admin-password : to change the admin password for the console login, in many documents out there the defaults of this user are:

 username: admin
 password: adminadmin

 However I have noticed that for Glassfish 3.0 when the installation has been done accepting all the defaults,

 the default credentials of this user are instead:

username: anonymous
password: empty 

• change-master-password: to change the master password for controlling the DAS and IKS for more info on this read this article.

Now coming back to our aim of changing the admin password for a specific domain :

 asadmin> start-domain mydomain
asadmin> change-admin-password --port 4848 --user anonymous
  here port = your admin console page port.
 You are then prompt for a password:
  Enter admin password> just press[Enter] for accepting an empty password.
  Enter new admin password> your password
  Enter new admin password again> your password
 asadmin> stop-domain mydomain
 asadmin> start-domain mydomain

 Just access your admin console url like http:localhost:4848
  username: anonymous
 password: your password.

Congratulation you just did it ! If you still face any problems drop a comment I will come to your rescue. Don't forget to give us your feedback....