hi I had the same problem and i was near to a nervous breakdown as I noticed that encription was requested and tomcat expected encripted passwords
Here you can read about a command linetool to encrypt it: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/realm-howto.html#Digested%20Passwords regards marc > I have recently installed Tomcat, and am having difficulty accessing the > Manager web application. I have added the role "manager" to the > tomcat-users.xml file under the user "both" but when I put in these > credentials at the password challenge, I am shown an http 403 error > (access denied). Any ideas why I may be receiving this error? > > Thanks, > > Brad Mann > Software Engineer - Information Access Services > HARRIS Corporation / GCSD > (321) 984-6292 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]