> That page talks about setting up authentication for HTTP access to the > Solr API. It has nothing at all to do with the OS user created by the > service install script. > > When the service install creates the OS user for the service, it is > created in such a way that its password is disabled. You can't use a > password for that user. On my Linux machine with a Solr service > installed, the hashed password entry in /etc/shadow is * - an asterisk. > > Here is an excerpt from the man page for shadow: > > Thanks for explaining that. I was confused.
Rhys
