Changing the GlassFish Admin Users's Password Programmatically
Friday, May 29, 2015 |Recently, in the #glassfish channel on Freenode, a user was having trouble configuring GlassFish in a Docker environment. He was scripting the configuration
of the server, but was having trouble setting the admin user’s password, since the change-admin-password command takes input from stdin.
Fortunately, there’s REST API for that. This curl command will do what the user needs to do without any need for additional input:
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curl -X POST \
-H 'X-Requested-By: YeaGlassFish' \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d id=admin \
-d AS_ADMIN_PASWORD=password \
-d AS_ADMIN_NEWPASSWORD=password2 \
http://localhost:4848/management/domain/change-admin-password
Once the password is set, this same command can be used to change the password, but --user admin:$PASSWORD must be added to authenticate
the request.
I should note that I don’t think this is an officially supported way to execute asadmin commands. It works, but it may change, or it may go away.
I would say that Oracle may not support doing this either, but they don’t offer any support, so there’s no harm there. :) Also note that
AS_ADMIN_PASWORD has a typo in it that may be fixed in future releases of the server. Caveat emptor! :)
My name is Jason Lee. I am a software developer living in the middle of Oklahoma. I’ve been a professional developer since 1997,
using a variety of languages, including Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, Delphi, and even a bit of C#. I currently work for Red Hat
on the WildFly/EAP team, where, among other things, I maintain integrations for some MicroProfile specs, OpenTelemetry, Micrometer,
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