Hi Roy,
No worries - again, docs need to be improved :-)
The tdm jar will prompt you for a password if you do not specify the cred
flag (however, it might assume a user called tdm - on my phone at the
moment, so not completely sure). The password used in the cred flag will be
the one in the tomcat-users.xml file. The system user running the TDM
process does not need a home directory or password, as long as it has the
appropriate read and write permissions.
Cheers,
Sean
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 4:45 PM Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <
roy.mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 23, 2017, at 3:39 PM, Sean Arms <sarms@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > In order for the TDM to talk to the TDS (that is, tell the TDS that new
> files are available to serve and that the client catalogs need to be
> refreshed), a Tomcat user needs to be configured such that it has the role
> tdsTrigger intomcat-users.xml. In the docs, we call that tomcat user tdm,
> but it can be whatever you like (I think), and again, is not tied to the
> system user running the tdm process. The user and password configured in
> tomcat-users.xml is the user and password given to the TDM via the cred
> flag, which is passed to the tdm jar.
> >
> So I leave out the cred flag in the script to launch the TDM, it will
> ask me for a password, and the password I give it is the one in the
> tomcat-users.xml? Is that correct? And therefore the TDM user can be a
> user with no home directory and no login password, Am I understanding this?
>
> Sorry to be dense, but I would rather make certain I understand it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Roy
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