Adding users and roles to Tomcat

Apache Tomcat Version : 6.0.18

Open the tomcat-users.xml, located in your Tomcat Home/conf folder.

To add a role :

<role rolename="myRole"/>

To add a user :

<user username="myUsername" password="myPassword" roles="myRole"/>

To asign multiple roles to a user :

<user username="myUsername" password="myPassword" roles="myRole1,myRole2,myRole3"/>

tomcat-users.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

  <tomcat-users>

    <role rolename="manager"/>

    <user username="admin" password="admin" roles="manager"/>

  </tomcat-users>