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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Sankaranarayanan Ganapathy <sg...@vitria.com> on 2001/07/24 18:23:28 UTC

tomcat-user.xml

What is this file used for?

What happens if tomcat is run without this file?

Can somebody explain?

Thanx
Ganesh

Re: tomcat-user.xml

Posted by John Hebert <jo...@vedalabs.com>.

Sankaranarayanan Ganapathy wrote:

> What is this file used for?

Provides basic security info when using servlets that provide logins via 
Basic or Form based authentication. Think of it as an example of how the 
real JDBCRealm database should be set up.

> What happens if tomcat is run without this file?

Nothing, if you don't hit a servlet that needs security. You will have 
to modify your server.xml as well.

> Can somebody explain?

Hope this helps just a bit.

-- 
John Alex Hebert
john@vedalabs.com
System Engineer