Hi, Please go thru below mail....u will get the answer.............. -----Original Message----- From: Nehal Sangoi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 9:15 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: Securing Manager Role
Hi, I could do it successfully yesterday. The right commandline in as follows. $ java -classpath $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/catalina.jar:/opt/commons-logging/commons- logging.jar org.apache.catalina.realm.RealmBase -a sha1 manager Thank You so much for providing this solution. Regds, Nehal -----Original Message----- From: Charlie C.L. King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 8:12 PM To: Tomcat Users List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Securing Manager Role hi, looks like you're stuck with your kshell. how about specifying canonical path to your java executable, e.g. /opt/bin/java? or if you're under some unix environment like FreeBSD, you can just use 'md5' or 'sha1' provided by system: % sha1 -s 'passphrase here' it will produce the same result for you. On 10/27/05, Nehal Sangoi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I modified my server.xml as follows. > > <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm" > resourceName="UserDatabase" digest="SHA1"/> > > Also, downloaded "commons-logging-20051027.tar.gz" and untarred the same. > > Later i tried giving below command : > > $ java -classpath > $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/catalina.jar:/opt/commons-logging/commons- > logging.jar org.apache.catalina.realm.RealmBase -a sha1 <manager> > But recd. following error : > > ksh: syntax error: `newline or ;' unexpected > > Please help doing this successfully. > > > Thanks, > Nehal > -- Regards, Charlie ------------------------------------------------------------ Hi, you can change it to a digested form, either in md5 or in sha1 or some others(see java.security.MessageDigest). but sha1 should be safer. here's the choir you have to do. 1. in your server.xml, add to its child element <Realm> a new attribute named "digest" and with its value "SHA1"(whatever you want). 2. run this % java -classpath $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/catalina.jar:/path/to/commons- logging.jar org.apache.catalina.realm.RealmBase -a sha1 <cleartext_password> you'll get the digested passphrase 3. use the digested passphrase as password in you tomcat-user.xml 4. be sure to restart tomcat and then you can try it the way digest means it should be difficult *BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE* to decrypt in case anyone might be able to read that file, thus you should secure the user file and prevent others from reading it. -- Regards, Charlie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
