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Re: Tomcat 4.1.18 Administration Tool does not appear to support
pass  word encryption

Tim Funk

2003-09-19

Replies:

tomcat-users.xml is meant for *simple* password maintenance. For more advance
password usage - use a different Realm such as JDBCRealm or JNDIRealm

-Tim

Gardner, David [IT] wrote:

> I am using a tomcat Realm user database that reads the standard
> tomcat-users.xml file using MD5 encryption. I have set up the administration
> tool to allow user name and password administration. This works but only
> saves a clear text password back to the tomcat-users.xml file. There appears
> to be no facility to configure it to write encrypted passwords. Has anyone
> set this up or changed the admin tool to allow this?
>


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