Re: Running Tomcat as a user other than root

2002-04-20 Thread David Lu
Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 1:14 PM Subject: Re: Running Tomcat as a user other than root i am able to run tomcat as non-root with no problems. however, if you installed tomcat as root, you'll need to change a number of file permissions. specifically

Re: Running Tomcat as a user other than root

2002-04-20 Thread David Lu
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 1:51 PM Subject: RE: Running Tomcat as a user other than root Excellent, this is what I was looking for. How do you switch to another user? Is that configurable in the tomcat configs or do I do it at the system level (through the startup.sh

Re: Running Tomcat as a user other than root

2002-04-20 Thread Ian Darwin
On April 20, 2002 02:13 pm, David Lu wrote: if you want tomcat to answer port 80 and want it to run as non-root, then your best bet is to run apache in front of it.  that's what i currently do on one of my servers. On BSD UNIXes you can use the packet filter redirection mechanism. Port 80

Re: Running Tomcat as a user other than root

2002-04-19 Thread Peter Choe
i was able to create a tomcat user and run it as tomcat instead of root. i su to tomcat user and start catalina.sh. At 01:33 PM 4/19/2002, Jay Wright wrote: On solaris, is it possible to run tomcat as a user other than root? Hopefully a config that can be set? Jay -- To unsubscribe:

RE: Running Tomcat as a user other than root

2002-04-19 Thread Jay Wright
on unix? i was under the impression that you could not bind to port 80 as a user other than root. -Original Message- From: Peter Choe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:41 AM To: Tomcat Users List; 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: Re: Running Tomcat as a user

RE: Running Tomcat as a user other than root

2002-04-19 Thread Peter Choe
PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:41 AM To: Tomcat Users List; 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: Re: Running Tomcat as a user other than root i was able to create a tomcat user and run it as tomcat instead of root. i su to tomcat user and start catalina.sh. At 01:33 PM 4/19

RE: Running Tomcat as a user other than root

2002-04-19 Thread David Bank
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:41 AM To: Tomcat Users List; 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: Re: Running Tomcat as a user other than root i was able to create a tomcat user and run it as tomcat instead of root. i su to tomcat user and start catalina.sh. At 01:33 PM

Re: Running Tomcat as a user other than root

2002-04-19 Thread David Lu
i am able to run tomcat as non-root with no problems. however, if you installed tomcat as root, you'll need to change a number of file permissions. specifically, the work, and log directories under tomcat will need to have permissions set to writable by other. and if you need to install your

RE: Running Tomcat as a user other than root

2002-04-19 Thread Jay Wright
, April 19, 2002 10:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Running Tomcat as a user other than root That's correct - on most (if not all) *NIX implementations, you cannot bind to Post 80 except as a super-user. There's no equivalent restriction in Windoze. However, once that binding

Re: Running Tomcat as a user other than root

2002-04-19 Thread D Henton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Tomcat Users List' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 1:51 PM Subject: RE: Running Tomcat as a user other than root Excellent, this is what I was looking for. How do you switch to another user? Is that configurable in the tomcat configs or do I do

Re: Running Tomcat as a user other than root

2002-04-19 Thread D Henton
Could you please give details. What OS? What port? Everything I've read since this can't be done for port 80. - Original Message - From: David Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 1:14 PM Subject: Re: Running Tomcat as a user other