The difference is application users -- managed by sling -- versus container users -- managed by OSGi.
Think tomcat users (container) vs webapp users (application). -Andreas On Jun 30, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Tako Schotanus wrote: > Ok, I have some more information. > > This problem ONLY occurs when I go directly to the /system/console/bundles > URL without having logged in beforehand! > In that case a standard browser login dialog pops up instead of the Sling > login page and that dialog accept only the old password. > If I go to the login page first it will only accept the new password. > > Is there double user bookkeeping somewhere? > > -Tako > > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 15:35, Tako Schotanus <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have this strange problem where changing the admin password does not seem >> to have any effect. >> >> I've done exactly what Justin explained below and in fact with curl I get a >> login page when using the old admin password (the default "admin") and I get >> the landing page when using the new one. >> >> But... and this is the strange thing... when I try to access >> /system/console/bundles it only accepts the old password! Even after >> restarting glassfish. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> -Tako >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 14:57, Justin Edelson <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> On 6/30/10 8:13 AM, Tako Schotanus wrote: >>>> And do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong while trying to change the >>>> admin password? I just can't get it to work. >>> >>> The instructions on the FAQ work for me. Starting with an empty >>> repository and the default bundles: >>> >>> curl http://admin:ad...@localhost:8888/index.html - works >>> curl http://admin:bad...@localhost:8888/index.html - returns login form >>> >>> curl -F"oldPwd=admin" -F"newPwd=Fritz" -F"newPwdConfirm=Fritz" >>> http://admin:ad...@localhost >>> :8888/system/userManager/user/admin.changePassword.html >>> >>> >>> curl http://admin:ad...@localhost:8888/index.html - returns login form >>> curl http://admin:fr...@localhost:8888/index.html - works >>> >>> You can safely ignore the bit in the FAQ about updating the admin >>> password in the web console. That no longer applies. >>> >>> As Bertrand said, if the above steps don't work for you, please post >>> some addition details (ideally under a new subject line to help >>> findability). >>> >>> Justin >>> >> >>
