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Would be great to put a screenshot of the GUI in the readme.md.

It would be great if the README file contained some information on how to run the application and under the situations in which it is designed to be used.

For example, it appears that the application is meant to be run from the Solr server itself given that you must input the path to the Solr install. A typical use case would be that you are running this application from another machine rather than directly on it. If that is not supported, and there is no way to use it that way, it would be good to point that out as a limitation. In my case, I typically have my Solr servers on Linux VM and SSH into them from a Windows workstation. It does not appear that I could use the tool in that manner.

Second, there does not appear to be any documentation on how to run it. I had to copy place the "current" SolrAuthManager.jar into a folder and then copy the "lib" folder from the project so that it was in the same folder as SolrAuthManager.jar. This allowed the application to run. I would note the details on this in the instructions. If there is a simple way to build the application (I tried BUILD in IntelliJ and it did not create the dist and dist/lib folders that I believe it should have.

Seems like a very useful tool, hoping to get to use it.