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hawkeye
Asked: 2011-09-04 04:06:38 +0800 CST

Why does tomcat-admin install require adding admin and manager to tomcat-users.xml manually?

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I installed tomcat6 on lucid using apt-get. All working.

I installed tomcat-admin. Not working.

I amended the /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml file to uncomment the users and roles (from the default) to be like the following:

<role rolename="tomcat"/>
<role rolename="role1"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="password" roles="tomcat"/>
<user username="both" password="password" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
<user username="role1" password="password" roles="role1"/>

This still didn't work.

Then from the following page I added. 

<role rolename="manager"/>
<user username="admin" password="secret" roles="manager"/>

then it worked.

Why doesn't this occur as part of the install? (Why isn't this in the Ubuntu Manual on Tomcat ?)

10.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Ansered in the comments.

    The Ubuntu Manual has: "Access to the manager application is protected by default: you need to define a user with the role "manager" in /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml before you can access it." I stumbled upon this myself several times, i thing many people are missing it...

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