Cannot login to Admin App in Tomcat 5.5.7

[R. Peeters]

Hi,

i downloaded and installed the Admin App, as described in an earlier post on this forum: https://coderanch.com/t/84805/Tomcat/Cannot-Tomcat-Admin-App-tp

When i try to login using http://localhost/admin/login.jsp, a username and password is asked.

The question is: what to fill in ?

There is a line in the ../Tomcat5.5/conf/tomcat-users.xml file that goes like:
<user username="admin" password="" roles="admin,manager"/>
This is the default setting that comes with the installation. It suggests filling in a blank as password, but that doesn't work.

Thanks in advance for answer,

Rolf.

[Craig Jackson]

I haven't used the Admin package maybe twice. So, I believe the default userName/password for Admin and Manager access are "admin" and "".

What tomcat is suggesting that you do for security reasons, is determine your own user/password for either the admin or manager screens or both.

 <user username="myadmin" password="mypassword" roles="admin,manager"/> 

Once you have done this, I believe you must restart tomcat for the changes to take effect.

[Jeffrey Spaulding]

You need to play a bit with the file

conf/tomcat-users.xml

create a new user and put him in the admin group

 
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
  <role rolename="tomcat"/>
  <role rolename="role1"/>
  <role rolename="manager"/>
  <role rolename="admin"/>
 
  <user username="username" password="password" roles="manager,admin"/>
                  ^^^^^^^^            ^^^^^^^^
 

  <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
  <user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
  <user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
</tomcat-users>
 

[Masoud Kalali]

Hi
I have tomcat 5.5.7 installed and i used (first time after installing Admin JMX console) the username and password i used for tomcat manager
and it works , i suggest ou use the user/password of your tomcat manager for administration console
hope it helps

[R. Peeters]

thx.