On 22/08/2019 20:06, Douglas R. Reno wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 12:50 PM Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev
> <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     On 22/08/2019 18:26, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote:
>     > On 08/22/2019 12:11 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote:
>     >> On 22/08/2019 17:36, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>> On 8/22/19 7:33 AM, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote:
>     >>>> Hello
>     >>>>
>     >>>> within jdk chapter , in section:
>     >>>>
>     >>>> ;-------------------------------------
>     >>>> Settting up the JRE Certificate Authority Certificates (cacerts) file
>     >>>>
>     >>>> To check the installatiion, issue:
>     >>>> cd /opt/jdk
>     >>>> bin/keytool -list -cacerts
>     >>>> ;-----------------------------------
>     >>>> If you follow instruction, a password is requested.
>     >>>> Enter keystore password:
>     >>>>
>     >>>> The default password is "changeit"
>     >>>> May I suggest, this should be specify/indicated within book
>     >>>>
>     >>> I thought that was in the configuring section, but if it isn't, I'll
>     drop it
>     >>> in when I tag it. Thank you
>     >>>
>     >>
>     >> I've never needed to enter a password when scripting... Have you tried
>     to just
>     >> hit <return>?
>     >>
>     >> Pierre
>     >>
>     > *****************  WARNING WARNING WARNING  *****************
>     > * The integrity of the information stored in your keystore  *
>     > * has NOT been verified!  In order to verify its integrity, *
>     > * you must provide your keystore password.                  *
>     > *****************  WARNING WARNING WARNING  *****************
>     >
>     > The purpose of the test is to prove "everything is installed
>     > correctly", if you do not provide password, integrity
>     > is not verified...
>     >
>     >
> 
>     Well I guess all java users know that the default password is "changeit", 
> so
>     providing that is not much more integrity check :)
> 
>     Programmers like this kind of big warnings, because it makes them feel
>     important, but really, entering "changeit" does not prove anything!
> 
>     "Everything is installed correctly" means you have access to the password
>     database. Whether you use a secret password is not part of that
>     installation...
> 
>     Anyway, we could have an xinclude file so that both sections in 
> configuring
>     and OpenJDK are identical...
> 
>     Doug, if you want, I can do 
> 
> 
> Please proceed :-)
> 

Well, not so easy, since xinclude files only allow one main tag, so that we
should create a sect3 or whatever. Just copied the paragraph about password to
the OpenJDK page...

Pierre
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