Managing users and passwords
The default security configuration uses a property file located at
<RuntimeContainerPath>/etc/users.properties to store
authorized users and their passwords. The default user name is tadmin and
the associated password is tadmin too. We strongly encourage you to change
the default password by editing the above file before moving Karaf into production.
Information noteWarning: The $ character should be avoided in the password in a Linux system, as $
may be interpreted by the Operating System as a variable, thus making the password
incorrect during patching.
The users are currently used in three different places
in Karaf:-
access to the SSH console
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access to the JMX management layer
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access to the Web console
Those three ways all delegate to the same JAAS based security authentication.
The users.properties file contains one or more lines, each line defining a user, its password and the associated roles:
user=password[,role][,role]...