Hello, I'm working on this package. To close this bug, I propose to replace in debian/tomcat6.postinst: chgrp tomcat6 /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml chgrp tomcat6 /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps by: chown -Rh tomcat6:adm /etc/tomcat6/* chown -Rh tomcat6:adm /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps What do you think? Ludovic