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Bug 115559 - admin password field for SJSAS confusing
Summary: admin password field for SJSAS confusing
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: serverplugins
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Sun Appserver 9 (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: All Windows 3.1/NT
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Vince Kraemer
URL:
Keywords: UI
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2007-09-14 14:48 UTC by tamiro
Modified: 2007-09-25 18:22 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description tamiro 2007-09-14 14:48:19 UTC 
One user at Boston Tech Days (Sept 12, 2007) experienced some confusion on 
adding SJSAS (Glassfish) as a server. He thought the entry for the admin password 
was to change Glassfish's admin password. He didn't realize that it was just for
configuring NB to know the admin password NB should use to have the permissions required 
for administering GF. 

It would be good to have for a little better wording to prevent
such misinterpretation in the future. To that effect, you could tell the 
user that the default password comes from the setup.xml file from the 
admin.password property and by convention is "adminadmin" and would differ 
from that if the admin.password property were changed before running 
setup. 

We could prefill the field with "adminadmin" 
-- which isn't obvious because of the ********'s shown. You can tell the 
user to just accept the value unless they know the password has been 
changed to something else.
Comment 1 Vince Kraemer 2007-09-14 19:33:24 UTC 
Which panel are you talking about here?  The password appears in two places.

was the user confused by page of the registration wizard or the server properties dialog?
Comment 2 tamiro 2007-09-14 19:42:35 UTC 
The panel is labeled "Domain Admin Login Info".
You get to is by doing 

   Tools -> Server Manager -> Add Server

After you enter the location of Glassfish with 
the Register default domain radio button selected 
and click Next, you get the Domain Admin Login Info 
panel with two fields:

  Admin Username: admin 
  Admin Password blank
Comment 3 Vince Kraemer 2007-09-14 22:23:32 UTC 
change current text:

Specify the user name and password for the domain's administrator.

TO:

Specify the user name and password used by the IDE to authenticate domain administration commands.
Comment 4 Vince Kraemer 2007-09-14 22:29:23 UTC 
setting to future -- pending approval...
Comment 5 Kenneth Ganfield 2007-09-20 16:45:01 UTC 
My suggestion would be to reword it slightly:

Enter the user name and password that the IDE should use to authenticate domain administration commands.
Comment 6 Vince Kraemer 2007-09-20 16:52:55 UTC 
good change. will do.