For some reason I did want to chang the password
(Server Registry/.../Properties in order to try
sth out. Unfortunately i didn't know that this
ment i can not connect to the server anymore,
meaning to deploy a webapp (although it was
logical for me afterwards). Netbeans then always
kept asking me for username/passwod, which I just
didn't know. It also was quite annoying, since you
cannot turn it of. However it took me 1(!) hour to
work out where the password is stored, since the
help pages didn't give me any hint whatsoever. So
finally I traced down the user...xml file and
copied the password from there. 

However I felt from the friendly user point of
view, (who may/may not know about tomcat/netbeans
config file locations) this is really bad
user-interface behaviour. Since we are talking
here about the local netbeans/tomcat installation
there should be some sort of 'RESET' button or
even select boxes, since only 'manager' roles
should be allowed anyway. 

I'm quite aware, that the current implementation
must not be aware of where configuration files are
stored, which is a good thing, so you can connect
to any remote server without changing the code.
But since we are talking about the tightly
integrated tomcat server, I think there should be
enhanced configuration possiblities.

This enhancement request may also be applicable
for other local tomcat servers, which are added
under Server Registries.

Many regards
Tom