Problem creating a Password Alias in Custom JNDI Resource

[Ulrich Mayring]

I have created a password alias:

asadmin --interactive=false --user admin --passwordfile=./mypasswords.txt create-password-alias my-password

The password file contains:
AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=superSecretPassword
AS_ADMIN_ALIASPASSWORD=changeit

I would expect that "my-password" now contains "changeit", but of course there is no way of knowing except that asadmin tells me it has successfully created the alias.

So then I created a custom JNDI resource:

asadmin --interactive=false --user admin --passwordfile=./mypasswords.txt create-custom-resource --property username=admin:password=${ALIAS=my-password} --restype com.example.MyResource --factoryclass com.example.MyResourceFactory my/jndiname

Upon logging in to the admin console I can see that my custom JNDI resource was created successfully, but in the password field it contains the string "my-password" instead of "${ALIAS=my-password}". Is that a bug or do I need to quote some characters?

Many thanks in advance for any pointers,

Ulrich

[ondrej....@gmail.com]

Did u run asadmin from console or shell script?

You have to either escape $ and { characters or put the whole expression into single quotes,like this:

 

'${ALIAS=my-password}'

 

I guess that the shell evaluate the expression to my-password before it executed the asadmin command

Ondro

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[Ulrich Mayring]

I ran asadmin from a shell script. Putting single quotes around the parameter like you suggested resulted in the following error message:

remote failure: Invalid property syntax, "=" in value: password=${ALIAS=my-password}

The same goes for several types of escaping I've tried.

Hence my question here, what is the correct way of escaping?

Ulrich

[Ulrich Mayring]

Patting myself on the back, I actually managed to get this done. You need to enclose the entire password with single quotes and then *additionally* escape the problematic characters like so:

password='\$\{ALIAS\=my-password\}'

Ulrich