You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to dev@tomcat.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2017/01/31 07:07:18 UTC

[Bug 60669] New: Unexpected behavior if tomcat manager user password contains &

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60669

            Bug ID: 60669
           Summary: Unexpected behavior if tomcat manager user password
                    contains &
           Product: Tomcat 8
           Version: 8.5.9
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Manager
          Assignee: dev@tomcat.apache.org
          Reporter: ahmedadel47@gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ----

Hi,

I added a user to my manager app, with role "manager-gui", and the password
contains & symbol, the user was not logging in!

I checked logs, I found exceptions relates to part of the password after the
"&" symbol

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@tomcat.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@tomcat.apache.org


[Bug 60669] Unexpected behavior if tomcat manager user password contains &

Posted by bu...@apache.org.
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60669

Ahmed Wahba <ah...@gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 CC|                            |ahmedadel47@gmail.com

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@tomcat.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@tomcat.apache.org


[Bug 60669] Unexpected behavior if tomcat manager user password contains &

Posted by bu...@apache.org.
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60669

Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED

--- Comment #1 from Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> ---
tomcat-users.xml is an XML file.

The '&' character is a reserved character in XML files must, therefore, be
escaped when used.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@tomcat.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@tomcat.apache.org