Thanks for picking this up, I should have remembered.
Ian

On 24 Jan 2010, at 20:03, Felix Meschberger (JIRA) wrote:

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> Felix Meschberger commented on SLING-1282:
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> Commented the password properties that they are not used in the embedded 
> Jackrabbit Repository bundle in Rev. 902634 and in Rev. 902635 set the 
> passwords to a dummy value in the generated default configuration.
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>> Adminisrative logins depend on password in the code or config
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>>                Key: SLING-1282
>>                URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-1282
>>            Project: Sling
>>         Issue Type: Bug
>>         Components: JCR
>>   Affects Versions: JCR Jackrabbit Server 2.0.6
>>           Reporter: Ian Boston
>>           Assignee: Ian Boston
>>            Fix For: JCR Jackrabbit Server 2.0.6
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>> 
>> Administrative logins use SimpleCredentials which means that they have to 
>> have a password. Although this is a configuration parameter changing the 
>> admin password creates some JVM timing difficulties especially when 
>> operating in a cluster. (JVMs would probably need to be restarted with new 
>> config immediately after changing the admin password.)
>> It would be better to use special credentials to indicate internal logins to 
>> the repository (eg public final class AdministrativeCredentials implements 
>> Credentials)
>> same is true for Anon/Guest users, although less important.
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