Re: tomcat users file

[Rainer Jung]

During startup, tomcat reads tomcat-users.xml and then immediately
writes it out again as tomcat-users.xml.new and afterwards renames
tomcat-users.xml.new to tomcat-users.xml (I don't know who invented that
...).

So either:

- the runtime user has write access to the directory tomcat-users.xml is
in (usually conf, but you can choose another one in server.xml), or

- you use at least Tomcat 5.5.12 (better 5.5.15 or 5.5.16) which has a
patch I submitted at 2005-08-04 that

     - logs a nicer message when it cannot write out and proceeds startup
     - allows tomcat-users.xml to be configured as readonly. I think it
works like this:

    <GlobalNamingResources>

      <Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container"
                type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"
         description="User database that can be updated and saved">
      </Resource>
      <ResourceParams name="UserDatabase">
        <parameter>
          <name>factory</name>

<value>org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory</value>
        </parameter>
        <parameter>
          <name>pathname</name>
          <value>conf/tomcat-users.xml</value>
        </parameter>
        <parameter>
          <name>readonly</name>
          <value>true</value>
        </parameter>
      </ResourceParams>

    </GlobalNamingResources>

Notice the new last parameter element:

        <parameter>
          <name>readonly</name>
          <value>true</value>
        </parameter>

Ali Kassem wrote:

Thanks, but i don't have file called tomcat-users.xml.new And the user

have read permission to tomcat-users.xml

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