If the main issue is your webservers then what should happen is that the initial run as root should get reassigned to the webserver owner, i.e. nobody, web, etc. Stephen Hauskins Divisional Liaison Academic Computing Group Division of Physical and Biological Sciences We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Crist J. Clark wrote:
We're using Sun Java System Application Server 8.1. I know the software is designed so it can be run as a non-root user, but right now, we have to run it as root since it binds to ports 80/tcp and 443/tcp. I've hit SunSolve, docs.sun.com, and Google, but can't seem to find out how to get it to drop privs to a non-root user after grabbing the low-numbered ports. Anyone know how to do this? I'd rather (a) not have this monster run as root if it doesn't have to and (b) not have the web app developers have to get a sys admin to make changes as root for them whenever they want to tweak some file. -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
