Fw: Tomcat manager fails and can't tell why.

[Yucca Nel]

From: yucca...@hotmail.com 
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 4:45 PM
To: Tomcat Users List 
Subject: Tomcat manager fails and can't tell why.

Hello 
Tomcat is playing games and I donno why. I copy my tomcat-users.xml to 
production and use credentials(tomcat username and password tomcat) As expected 
I am able to log in, but the moment I change these to more secure credentials 
in the xml, authentication fails. I know the xml is not meant for production 
authentication, but this is just to test the manager application is working 
before I continue with setting up rest of the server?

Using version 7.05

and users.xml looks as follows:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!--
  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at

      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  limitations under the License.
-->
<tomcat-users>
    <!--
      NOTE:  By default, no user is included in the "manager-gui" role required
      to operate the "/manager/html" web application.  If you wish to use this 
app,
      you must define such a user - the username and password are arbitrary.
    -->
    <!--
      NOTE:  The sample user and role entries below are wrapped in a comment
      and thus are ignored when reading this file. Do not forget to remove
      <!.. ..> that surrounds them.
    -->
    <!--
      <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"/>
    -->
    <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
    <role rolename="manager-script"/>
    <user password="test" roles="manager-gui, manager-script" username="test"/>

</tomcat-users>

This works.... but changing the password to alphanumeric causes it to fail!