Security

Admin

To set-up the admin user. Edit:

/etc/tomcat5/tomcat-users.xml

(on Windows):

C:\tools\Tomcat 5.5\conf\tomcat-users.xml

and add an admin user:

<user username="admin" password="password" roles="admin"/>

Change the password to something more secure!!

Re-start the Tomcat server:

/etc/init.d/tomcat5 restart

To run a Tomcat service as Administrator (not sure why you would want to do this):

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