Re: How to protect the plain text username and password in the server.xml

2010-10-29 Thread Pid
On 29/10/2010 10:19, 彬 乔 wrote: > Dears, > > We are using Tomcat 5.5.20 in a RHEL 64bit box. The application running on it > is a financial system. An internal audit indicated that we should not use > plain text username and password in the server.xml, as: > > username="user" > passwor

Re: How to protect the plain text username and password in the server.xml

2010-10-29 Thread Simon Funnell
It is possible to define the element as an entity in server.xml: |http://somewhere.com/resource.xml";>| and then replace the Resource element with the entity: &|secure_resource Because the entity resolves to an external source, this source can be generated dynamically, by a script for example.

How to protect the plain text username and password in the server.xml

2010-10-29 Thread 彬 乔
Dears, We are using Tomcat 5.5.20 in a RHEL 64bit box. The application running on it is a financial system. An internal audit indicated that we should not use plain text username and password in the server.xml, as: Is there a way to use encrypted username and password in the server.xml file?