[wsas-java-dev] svn commit r527 - wsas/java/trunk/xdocs/tools

Mon Jan 22 01:47:38 PST 2007

Author: marietta
Date: Mon Jan 22 01:47:31 2007
New Revision: 527

Modified:
   wsas/java/trunk/xdocs/tools/change_passwd.html
Log:
Reviewed.

Modified: wsas/java/trunk/xdocs/tools/change_passwd.html
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--- wsas/java/trunk/xdocs/tools/change_passwd.html	(original)
+++ wsas/java/trunk/xdocs/tools/change_passwd.html	Mon Jan 22 01:47:31 2007
@@ -5,34 +5,33 @@
 <head>
   <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
   <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
+  <title>WSO2 Web Services Application Server for Java, v at wso2wsas_version@ -
+  Change Password Tool</title>
   <link href="cmd/css/wsas-dist-doc.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
   media="all" />
-  <title>WSO2 Web Services Application Server for Java, v at wso2wsas_version@ - Change
-  Password Tool</title>
 </head>
 
 <body>
 <h1>WSO2 Web Services Application Server for Java, v at wso2wswas_version@ -
 Change Password Tool</h1>
 
-<p>This document will instruct how an admin user can change his password.</p>
+<p>This document explains how an admin user can change his password.</p>
 
 <h2>Introduction</h2>
 
-<p>If an admin user forgets his password he cannot retrieve it using the
+<p>If an admin user forgets his password, he cannot retrieve it using the
 Management Console due to security concerns. Furthermore, if you started WSO2
 WSAS for Java for the first time on one version of a JDK (1.4 say), and later
-decide to switch to another version of a JDK (1.5 say), it becomes impossible
-for WSO2 WSAS to decrypt the user passwords, since the security providers for
-different JDKs are different. <br />
-In such scenarios, you would have to change the relevant password(s) by
-running the chpasswd script on the machine which is hosting the WSO2 WSAS
-server.</p>
+decided to switch to another version of a JDK (1.5 say), it becomes
+impossible for WSO2 WSAS to decrypt the user passwords, since the security
+providers for different JDKs are different. <br />
+In such scenarios, you would have to change the relevant passwords by running
+the chpasswd script on the machine that hosts the WSO2 WSAS server.</p>
 
-<p>This chpasswd script is located in WSO2WSAS_HOME/bin</p>
+<p>The chpasswd script is located in WSO2WSAS_HOME/bin</p>
 
 <p><strong><em>IMPORTANT: Before executing this script, you should shutdown
-the WSO2 WSAS instance..</em></strong></p>
+the WSO2 WSAS instance.</em></strong></p>
 
 <h2>What You Need to Know</h2>
 
@@ -40,7 +39,7 @@
 information</p>
 <ol>
   <li>The WSO2 WSAS database URL
-    <p>WSO2 WSAS by default ships with the Apache Derby database and hence
+    <p>By default, WSO2 WSAS ships with the Apache Derby database and hence
     the default URL would be jdbc:derby:/home/<strong>[user
     name]</strong>/.wso2wsas/database/WSO2WSAS_DB (For Windows
     jdbc:derby:C:\Documents and Settings\<strong>[user
@@ -58,19 +57,20 @@
   <li>The Database username and password
     <p>Again for the default Apache Derby database, the default username and
     password will be used by the system. However, if a different
-    username/password is used they are needed to reset the admin password.</p>
+    username/password is used, they are required to reset the admin
+    password.</p>
   </li>
   <li>The username and new password of the user whose password is to be
     changed
     <p>If you do not provide these as command line arguments, you will be
-    prompted for it during the execution of this tool.</p>
+    prompted for it during the execution.</p>
   </li>
 </ol>
 
 <h2>Resetting the Password</h2>
 
 <p>This script is located in WSO2WSAS_HOME/bin. Usually this is the directory
-to which you have installed WSO2 WSAS in the case of the Standalone Edition,
+in which you have installed WSO2 WSAS in the case of the Standalone Edition,
 or the WSO2WSAS_HOME directory you specified during the installation of the
 Servlet Edition.</p>
 
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
 <h2>Important Note</h2>
 <ul>
   <li>If the database path includes directory names with spaces, the whole
-    URL needs to be included inside a pair of quotations.
+    URL needs to be included within quotations.
     <p></p>
   </li>
 </ul>


