Peter Lerche wrote:

>On Wednesday 14 August 2002 16:44, Vadim Gritsenko wrote:
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>>Antonio Gallardo Rivera wrote:
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>>>The same here! ;)
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>>>El Miércoles, 14 de Agosto de 2002 07:02, Manos Batsis escribió:
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>>>>>From: Vegan Portal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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>>>>>8) Web frontend
>>>>>Proposal: Apache
>>>>>Remarks: This is only for security reasons - the task
>>>>>of Apache is just to forward the requests. I think
>>>>>more of you are using it, true?
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>>>>Not needed.
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>>>Not needed
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>>Can somebody explain how to run Tomcat on port 80 under user with no
>>root priviledges?
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>Hi Vadim your question is a bit off topic.... but ...OK .
>

Hey, come on,  today is offtopic day! See all these messages fly? None 
of them are Cocoon related ;-P


>I assume that you are taking about  Tomcat running on a *nix.
>All ports below 1024 (correct me if I am wrong the port no.) is reserved
>for root only.
>

I know that, hence the question. Apache can do change uid on its file 
serving childs, but that's not an option for Java app like Tomcat.


> Just run Tomcat on port 8080 and make a port map in your 
>firewall 80->8080  (you would not run a webserver without a firewall WELL...)
>

(yes, I use f/wall built into my modem)


>It is a lot safer to run the server on 8080 you can create a user with nice 
>restricted userrights. 
>

That's was my point.

So, the answer is:
Apache + Tomcat  can be replaced with firewall (linux iptables?) + Tomcat.


Thanks to Rossel for the hint.

Vadim

>Peter Lerche
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>>Vadim
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