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I'm trying to install GlassFish v2 on my Macintosh. The installation instructions say that it should prompt for an admin password, but it doesn't, and now I can't log into the admin console on localhost:4848. And I can't change it with asadmin change-admin-password because it needs the old one. I think I installed GlassFish with NetBeans a few months ago and might have started it up once or twice, but I don't remember what password I used back then. Is there a command I can give or a file I can delete to make it forget that old password and prompt me for a new one?

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Why it's "migrated from serverfault.com" ? – linux_is_for_desktop Aug 13 '09 at 9:41
Because somebody decided it wasn't sysadmin-ish enough for ServerFault. – Paul Tomblin Aug 13 '09 at 11:37
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The default password is built into the app, and at the risk of making unsecure apps even more unsecure. Default password is "adminadmin".

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Ok, that gave me the clue. Evidently the default password is built into the app, and at the risk of making unsecure apps even more unsecure, it's "adminadmin". – Paul Tomblin Jul 18 '09 at 1:07
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Paul: That is...awesome. – TheTXI Jul 18 '09 at 1:09
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Link is dead... – Damian Nowak Jan 22 at 22:13
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You can also create a new domain, set the admin password there to whatever you like and move the password files over to your original domain. Here's a blog post explaining the process:

http://techteam.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/reset-glassfish-password/

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There's even better answer in that post now. Go to glassfish3\glassfish\domains\domain1\config\local_password file - its contents are a backup password to log in as admin. – Victor Sergienko May 7 at 10:35
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