I just installed tomcat 9.0.37 on my ubuntu 20.04 system. The install
worked just fine, no errors of any kind.
I modified the tomcat-users.xml file to have the following content
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<tomcat-users xmlns="http://tomcat.apache.org/xml"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://tomcat.apache.org/xml
tomcat-users.xsd"
version="1.0">
<!--
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. It
is
strongly recommended that you do NOT use one of the users in the
commented out
section below since they are intended for use with the examples web
application.
-->
<!--
NOTE: The sample user and role entries below are intended for use with
the
examples web application. They are wrapped in a comment and thus are
ignored
when reading this file. If you wish to configure these users for use with
the
examples web application, do not forget to remove the <!.. ..> that
surrounds
them. You will also need to set the passwords to something appropriate.
-->
<!--
<role rolename="tomcat"/>
<role rolename="role1"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="<must-be-changed>" roles="tomcat"/>
<user username="both" password="<must-be-changed>" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
<user username="role1" password="<must-be-changed>" roles="role1"/>
-->
<role rolename="admin-gui"/>
<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<role rolename="manager-script"/>
<role rolename="manager-status"/>
<role rolename="manager-jmx"/>
<user username="my_username" password="my-secret-password"
roles="admin-gui,manager-gui,manager-script,manager-jmx,manager-status/>
</tomcat-users>
I stopped and restarted tomcat
When I visit http://localhost:8080 I see the expected page. When I click on
the "Manager App" button I enter the username and password I entered into
my tomcat users file. But it never accepts my username/password, it just
keeps re-issuing the prompt. I looked at the files in the logs directory
and in the cataline logfile I saw the following message
11-Jul-2020 11:31:12.804 WARNING [http-nio-8080-exec-2]
org.apache.catalina.realm.LockOutRealm.filterLockedAccounts An attempt was
made to authenticate the locked user [my_username]
There were no other messages in the logfile pertaining to my user.
How do I resolve this issue ?
Thanks.
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Barry Kimelman
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada