@mohammad
To run root commands from Tomcat on Linux, you can follow these steps:
- Login to your Linux server as the root user or a user with sudo privileges.
- Open a terminal or command prompt.
- Navigate to the Tomcat installation directory. This directory is often located at /opt/tomcat or /var/lib/tomcat.
- Open the conf/tomcat-users.xml file in a text editor.
- Add a new user with the required roles to access the root privileges. Here is an example:
Replace "admin" with your desired username and "password" with your preferred password. You can add multiple users with different roles as necessary.
- Save the changes and close the file.
- Restart the Tomcat server using the appropriate command. For example, sudo systemctl restart tomcat or /etc/init.d/tomcat restart.
- Open a web browser and go to http://localhost:8080/manager/html. Replace localhost with your server's IP or hostname if necessary.
- Enter the username and password specified in the tomcat-users.xml file.
- After successfully logging in, you will see the Manager App page. From here, you can execute root commands by clicking on the "Open Shell" button.
- In the shell console, you can run root commands by prefixing them with sudo. For example, to list the contents of the root directory, you can run sudo ls /.
Note: Running root commands from a web application like Tomcat can be a security risk. Make sure to properly secure your Tomcat server, restrict user roles, and limit root access to trusted individuals or roles.