Tomcat – How to change default user and password for Tomcat

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I have recently installed Xampp, and I am now learning JSP but after copying my `.jsp` file into the required file and starting Tomcat it won't let me access the manager without a user and password.

I have made no changes to any of the settings and this is a brand new install, I have managed to find the default user/password for MySQL on the net but have had no such luck for TomCat.
I have used the following user/passowrd combinations till now:

root and no password
root as user and password
xampp as user and password

Please help me with finding the default user password or better yet how to change them, I've seen some files which look like they might contain the user/passwords but I do not wish to replace things blindly.

Best Answer

Look at conf/tomcat_users.xml.

Uncomment the roles and users block. Define a role named admin (if tomcat6) or manager-gui (tomcat7). Then, define a user named as you want with the password you like AND the role admin or manager-gui assigned to it.

Restart your tomcat. Test.

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Are you sure the passwords are correct?

Check the TOMCAT_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml to see if the user has roles="manager" assigned

Ssh – How to automate SSH login with password

Don't use a password. Generate a passphrase-less SSH key and push it to your VM.

If you already have an SSH key, you can skip this step… Just hit Enter for the key and both passphrases:

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.

Copy your keys to the target server:

$ ssh-copy-id id@server
id@server's password:

Now try logging into the machine, with ssh 'id@server', and check-in:

.ssh/authorized_keys

Note: If you don't have .ssh dir and authorized_keys file, you need to create it first

to make sure we haven’t added extra keys that you weren’t expecting.

Finally, check to log in…

$ ssh id@server

id@server:~$

You may also want to look into using ssh-agent if you want to try keeping your keys protected with a passphrase.

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