What is the default username and password for h2 when there's nothing explicit in JDBC?

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bmargulies picture bmargulies · Jan 1, 2012 · Viewed 72.4k times · Source

From a program, I created a H2 database without specifying any user or password in the JDBC URL.

Now I'm trying to access that database with the Script tool. The doc says to use -user sa in the default case. That doesn't work, and it still doesn't work if I either add -password sa or remove -user. What am I missing?

/opt/h2/bin java -cp h2-1.3.161.jar org.h2.tools.Script -url jdbc:h2:/data/jug/jas-coref.h2 -user sa -password sa -script /data/jug/ris-start.sql
Exception in thread "main" org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLException: Wrong user name or password [28000-161]
at org.h2.message.DbException.getJdbcSQLException(DbException.java:329)
at org.h2.message.DbException.get(DbException.java:169)
at org.h2.message.DbException.get(DbException.java:146)
at org.h2.message.DbException.get(DbException.java:135)
at org.h2.engine.Engine.validateUserAndPassword(Engine.java:301)
at org.h2.engine.Engine.createSessionAndValidate(Engine.java:146)
at org.h2.engine.Engine.createSession(Engine.java:121)
at org.h2.engine.Engine.createSession(Engine.java:28)
at org.h2.engine.SessionRemote.connectEmbeddedOrServer(SessionRemote.java:285)
at org.h2.jdbc.JdbcConnection.<init>(JdbcConnection.java:110)
at org.h2.jdbc.JdbcConnection.<init>(JdbcConnection.java:94)
at org.h2.Driver.connect(Driver.java:72)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:582)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:185)
at org.h2.tools.Script.execute(Script.java:152)
at org.h2.tools.Script.execute(Script.java:133)
at org.h2.tools.Script.runTool(Script.java:101)
at org.h2.tools.Script.main(Script.java:51)

Answer

bmargulies picture bmargulies · Jan 1, 2012

Well, duh, that didn't take long.

The answer is -user "".

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