> I'm not following how this helps my case, Keith. I have a truststore with no 
> password. I don't want the keystore to be used.

Ok.  I suggested because I suspected the truststore was created because it was 
required and duplicated CA info already in the keystore.  But that is not your 
use case, so ignore that line of thought. 

I think there two distinct issues to consider with this change : password 
quality and was a password set.  It may make sense to require setting a 
password.  However, nothing should be baked into the code that attempts to 
measure password quality and reject bad passwords.  If we are going to disallow 
empty string, then why stop there?  Why not also disallow single character 
passwords?  

In the 2.0 branch I think I added something to AccumuloConfig to check if a 
prop was set or not, but I don't think this is in 1.9.  If there is an easy way 
to distinguish between set and not set in 1.9, then I think requiring the user 
to set any password (including empty string) would be good.  If this solution 
is not easy to do in 1.9, then I don't have strong opinion for or against 
making this change as is.


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