> the web server runs as UID "nobody", as well as jserv. i do not want to
> change that; i only want one single servlet to have root privileges.
It's not posible to do that. You might want to isolate the code needing
those privileges and run it in a separate VM, accessed with RMI. Even so,
the JVM is a big and complicated program, and I don't know if it is safe to
run it as root.
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