Re: AW: why is tomcat-users.xml rewritten ?

2004-09-19 Thread QM
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 06:19:57PM -0400, Fred Stluka wrote: : I've just searched the archives and it seems that this question : comes up every few months at least. The behavior of rewriting : tomcat-users.xml and changing its permissions to match the : Tomcat umask surprises enough people that it

Re: AW: why is tomcat-users.xml rewritten ?

2004-09-19 Thread Fred Stluka
I've just searched the archives and it seems that this question comes up every few months at least. The behavior of rewriting tomcat-users.xml and changing its permissions to match the Tomcat umask surprises enough people that it seems worth changing if possible. I put a lot of faith in "the prin

AW: why is tomcat-users.xml rewritten ?

2004-09-19 Thread Steffen Heil
Hi > Each time tomcat is restarted the file tomcat-users.xml is rewritten. It is horrible since my umask being 0022 the file which stores passwords become world readable. Obviously this file has to be read my the server but I do not see any valuable reason to write it back opening a serious securi