The out-of-the-box management supports a simple username/password authentication. For security reason, it requires that the jmxremote.password file to be accessible by the owner only.

Windows XP Home Edition doesn't provide a way to set per-file permission. There is a workaround to set the permission on a shared folder. We need to provide a solution to address this issue. One idea is to provide a simple utility to secure the permission of a file.