Problem

Is there or what is the default administrator user and password for Tomcat?

Solution

By default, Tomcat does not enable admin or manager access. To enable it, you have to edit the “%TOMCAT_FOLDER%/conf/tomcat-users.xml” manually.

File : tomcat-users.xml (before update) , initially, Tomcat comments all users and roles like above.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
<!--
  <role rolename="tomcat"/>
  <role rolename="role1"/>
  <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
  <user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
  <user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
-->
</tomcat-users>

File : tomcat-users.xml (after updated)

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
<!--
  <role rolename="tomcat"/>
  <role rolename="role1"/>
  <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
  <user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
  <user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
-->
  <role rolename="manager"/>
  <role rolename="admin"/>
  <user username="admin" password="admin" roles="admin,manager"/>
</tomcat-users>

To enable admin access, just update the content like above. Saved it and restart Tomcat, now you can access Tomcat admin or manger pages with user = “admin” and password = “admin“.

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