The MemoryUserDatabaseMBean will write to tomcat-users.xml if its "save" method is invoked via JMX.
Rich On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Kees Jan Koster <kjkos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Petr, > >> any comment on this subject? The question is related to OpenSolaris >> package >> (*) where we have all files owned by root and tomcat is executed with >> dedicated user credentials. >> >> Currently tomcat-user.xml and conf directory is owned by tomcat user but >> it >> makes some noise in our package auditing. >> >> The question is what is limitation of setting user database as readonly >> (in >> server.xml) for Tomcat 6.0.18 and having tomcat-user.xml and conf >> directory >> owned by root. > > > Does tomcat-users.xml ever have to be written from Tomcat? I routinely run > with tomcat-users.xml as read-only and it is no problem for me. I don't > actually use that mechanism at all. > -- > Kees Jan > > http://java-monitor.com/forum/ > kjkos...@kjkoster.org > 06-51838192 > > Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know that in a universe so > full of wonders, > they have managed to invent boredom. Quite astonishing... -- Terry Pratchett > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- Rich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org