On Feb 12, 2013, at 12:11 PM, Sabrina Lautier wrote: > Hi, > > [Tomcat version: 7.0, OS: Windows 7 en] > > I wrote a java prg that gets the name and password of a user who has > manager-script as role in file tomcat-users.xml. > The current entry found in that file is: > <user name="test" password="xxx" roles="admin-gui,manager-gui" /> > , it was created during the tomcat installation process and I haven't > edited it since then.
The documentation would seem to agree with this format. https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/realm-howto.html#UserDatabaseRealm > > But comments in this file indicate username and not name: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > <!-- > <role rolename="tomcat"/> > <role rolename="role1"/> > <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/> > <user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/> > <user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/> > --> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > If you're curious, you could simply uncomment this and see what happens. You can explore the user database by connecting with jconsole and looking at the Mbeans. Look for the "Users" node. Dan > Can someone please say which attribute is the proper one for elt <user>: > name or username ? > The documentation is unclear to me on that specific point. > > Regards, > Sabrina --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
