I think that is refering to a RDBMS realm. Last time I checked,
tomcat-users.xml
was only read on startup.

Ron Andersen wrote:

>1) I configured the default authentication realm - UserDatabaseRealm, which is setup to use conf/tomcat-users.xml. However, I am confused about the following statement:
>
>This Realm uses the UserDatabase configured in the global JNDI
>resources under the key "UserDatabase". Any edits that are performed against this UserDatabase are immediately available for use by the Realm.
>
>2) Does this mean that I can add user to the conf/tomcat-users.xml and Tomcat will be able to authenticate without restarting the server?
>
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