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+################################################################################
+#
+#    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+#    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+#    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+#    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+#    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+#    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#    limitations under the License.
+#
+################################################################################
+
+#
+# This file contains the valid users who can log into Karaf. Each line have to be of
+# the format:
+#
+# USER=KEY,ROLE1,ROLE2,...
+#
+# All users and roles entered in this file are available after Karaf startup
+# and modifiable via the JAAS command group. These users reside in a JAAS domain
+# with the name "karaf"..
+#
+
+#
+# For security reason, the default auto-signed key is disabled.
+# The user guide describes how to generate/update the key.
+#
+_g_\:admingroup = group,admin,manager,viewer,systembundles,ssh