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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 25822] New: - tomcat shouldn't write tomcat-users.xml at startup

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tomcat shouldn't write tomcat-users.xml at startup

           Summary: tomcat shouldn't write tomcat-users.xml at startup
           Product: Tomcat 5
           Version: 5.0.16
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Catalina
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: xpoinsard@openpricer.com


I am trying to start tomcat as normal user and carefully adding only required
permissions and I found that during startup tomcat is writing the file
tomcat-users.xml. I think it should only write this file when users are
added/modified/deleted and I think it would be a bad thing to have to make the
entire conf directory writeable since it writes a tomcat-users.xml.new and then
renames it.
I am using the standard binaries.
For info :
30 déc. 2003 13:27:34 org.apache.naming.NamingContext lookup
ATTENTION: Une erreur s est produite durant la résolution de la référence
java.io.FileNotFoundException:
/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.16/conf/tomcat-users.xml.new (Permission denied)
        at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
        at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:179)
        at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:131)
        at
org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabase.save(MemoryUserDatabase.java:508)
        at
org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory.getObjectInstance(MemoryUserDatabaseFactory.java:144)
        at
org.apache.naming.factory.ResourceFactory.getObjectInstance(ResourceFactory.java:176)
        at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getObjectInstance(NamingManager.java:301)
        at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:837)
        at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:197)
        at
org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.createMBeans(GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.java:202)
        at
org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.createMBeans(GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.java:172)
        at
org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.lifecycleEvent(GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.java:144)
        at
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:166)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2336)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:297)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:398)
30 déc. 2003 13:27:34
org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener createMBeans
GRAVE: Exception processing Global JNDI Resources
javax.naming.NamingException:
/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.16/conf/tomcat-users.xml.new (Permission denied)
        at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:849)
        at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:197)
        at
org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.createMBeans(GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.java:202)
        at
org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.createMBeans(GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.java:172)
        at
org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.lifecycleEvent(GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.java:144)
        at
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:166)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2336)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:297)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:398)
30 déc. 2003 13:27:34 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start

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