On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Christian Mueller <mcrmc...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Please take a look at
>
> http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/installation/upgrade.html
>
> section "Obtaining a master password".
>
> This algorithm works for upgrading from versions < 2.2 and for fresh
> installations of 2.2.x. Since we have no migrated security directory in
> 2.2.x, a fresh installation will also trigger the security migration and
> the result is always a randomly generated master password of 8 characters
> stored in masterpw.info.
>
> For versions 2.3.x, fresh installations will use an already migrated
> security directory. To be consistent, I would like to generate a random
> master password of 8 chars and store it into masterpw.info.
>
> I dislike the idea of having a master password "geoserver". This password
> should be reserved for the standard "admin" user.
>
> Hope my idea becomes clearer :-)
Hmm... as an administrator I would not be happy about software generating a
password on my back... but at the very least, if
it does, it should tell the administrator it did so by providing some
feedback in the UI until that file is removed
(don't expect the admins to read the logs line by line)
Cheers
Andrea
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