Hi Jody
The J2EE authentication filter has nothing to do with the master password,
I think this is a misunderstanding.
Christian
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]>wrote:
> Looks like it is only delegating to the application container:
>
> http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/security/tutorials/j2ee/index.html
>
>
>
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Christian Mueller <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> @Jody, no idea what you are meaning with the web.xml file, please let me
>> know.
>>
>> At the moment, the only way to change the master password is using the
>> GUI. Unfortunately , the security subsystem has no REST API. Changing the
>> master password requires encryption of the keystore and all key entries.
>> The master password itself is protected by a permutation. Doing all these
>> things manually is quite a work.
>>
>> Sorry for the bad news :-(
>> Christian
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> One thing you can do is configure geoserver to use the web.xml file for
>>> the master password. That is easy to edit by hand...
>>>
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Andrea Aime <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Patric Hafner | geOps <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear list members,
>>>>>
>>>>> sorry for asking again - can maybe anybody give me a hint? This would
>>>>> be
>>>>> great.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I guess the only one that could help you there is Christian (cc'ed),
>>>> everyone else would have to
>>>> go read the code to handle the master passwords...
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Andrea
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