支持的角色权限查看在\webapps\manager\WEB-INF\web.xml中，在web.xml下查看

  <security-role>

    <description>

      The role that is required to access the HTML Manager pages

    </description>

    <role-name>manager-gui</role-name>

  </security-role>

  <security-role>

    <description>

      The role that is required to access the text Manager pages

    </description>

    <role-name>manager-script</role-name>

  </security-role>

  <security-role>

    <description>

      The role that is required to access the HTML JMX Proxy

    </description>

    <role-name>manager-jmx</role-name>

  </security-role>

  <security-role>

    <description>

      The role that is required to access to the Manager Status pages 

    </description>

    <role-name>manager-status</role-name>

  </security-role>

说明支持四种角色：manager-gui、manager-script、manager-jmx、manager-status
 
然后在conf目录下的tomcat-users.xml中配置用户及角色，例如：
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
  <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
  <role rolename="manager-script"/>
  <role rolename="manager-jmx"/>
  <role rolename="manager-status"/>
  <user username="nb" password="kb" roles="manager-gui,manager-script,manager-jmx,manager-status"/>
</tomcat-users>
说明用户nb，秘密kb，支持四种角色，也可以配置一种或多种角色。
修改完tomcat-users.xml后重启tomcat服务，并且清空IE缓存密码表单等信息再次尝试登录！