How to Set Tomcat Admin and Manager Password

After installing a new Tomcat server, there will be no user created by default to access Administrator and Manager web interfaces. After completing the installation setup Tomcat Admin and Manager user accounts and set their passwords.

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Setup Tomcat Admin & Manager Users

To create user account edit conf/tomcat-users.xml file in editor and copy below configuration inside <tomcat-users> </tomcat-users> tags.

As per above configuration user manager only can access manager web interface but admin can access both admin + manager web interface.

After making above change Stop and Start your Tomcat server.

Access Roles in Tomcat

Tomcat 7 and onward releases uses the following roles for accessing Tomcat Admin and Manager interfaces. Use the following roles while creating users with specific access levels.

1. Roles for Admin (Host Manager) Access:

   • admin-gui – This allows access to the HTML GUI
   • admin-script – This allows access to the text interface

2. Roles for Manager (Manager App) Access:

   • manager-gui – This allows HTML GUI and the status pages
   • manager-script – This allows text interface and the status pages
   • manager-jmx – This allows JMX proxy and the status pages
   • manager-status – This allows access to the status pages only