Re: How does Tomcat interact with filesystem file permissions

2005-03-24 Thread Brian J. Sayatovic
Well, I can create a special "Tomcat Service" account, and then be careful what groups I add it to, and make sure the Tomcat directory is accessible to it. I'll also find the How To for running Tomcat as an NT service again to see if they address this. And this isn't a corporation, this is ju

Re: How does Tomcat interact with filesystem file permissions

2005-03-23 Thread Jason Bainbridge
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:38:31 -0500, Brian J. Sayatovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So is all file access from the DefaultServlet performed as the Local > System account? Sure is and running any service like Tomcat as LocalSystem is a bad idea, you should create either a domain or local account (s

How does Tomcat interact with filesystem file permissions

2005-03-23 Thread Brian J. Sayatovic
I'm curious to know how Tomcat interacts with file permissions in the native filesystem. For example, I'm running Tomcat 5.5 on Windows XP SP2 as a service under the Local System account. I'm also using Tagisj JAAS as a JAAS Realm so Tomcat can use my XP credentials. I have my default context