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config-substitutions.properties. For example, if you review the parameter
values in Listing 9.1 and change PortOffset to a value of 10, then HTTPPort will be
set to 8090, and NamingPort will be set to 1109.
Note:
If you are running other software in your machine that uses TCP/IP ports, it is common to
encounter port conflict problems when you start the Community Edition server. By
changing port numbers or the PortOffset parameter, you can get past this problem.
For more information, see Chapter 11, Troubleshooting.
9.3.3 Changing the username and password
The default username and password for the Community Edition administrative console is
system and manager respectively. You can change these defaults by editing the
groups.properties and users.properties files in the
/var/security directory.
To add a new user and specify a password, follow these steps:
1. Open the file /var/security/groups.properties, and add a
new username. For example, in Listing 9.2, another user named user1 will be
created in the admin group.
admin=system, user1
Listing 9.2 - groups.properties file
2. Open the file /var/security/users.properties, and add a
line to specify the password for the user user1. For example, in Listing 9.3 the
password has been set to password1. The username has to be the same as the
one added to the groups.properties file.
System=manager
user1=password1
Listing 9.3 - users.properties file
The Community Edition server does not save passwords as plain text in the file
users.properties. Instead, it uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encoded
passwords after you start the server for the first time.
9.4 Introducing the administrative console
The Community Edition admin console is a Web-based application user interface for
managing the Community Edition server. After you start the server, you can access the
admin console by pointing your browser to the URL http://localhost:8080/console. The
admin console is shown in Figure 9.2 below.