Re: how to harden tomcat?

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Echerer
Hi, One thing to look out for would be the use of JNI i.e. native calls. I'm not sure if there is a way of preventing someone from packaging a .so in a WAR and then loading it in to the app via code to bypass the lack of LD_LIBRARY_PATH (on *nix). didn't try it myself, but I guess

Re: how to harden tomcat?

2005-02-24 Thread Patrick Lacson
Thanks Peter. On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:59:59 +1100, Peter Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't really come across hardening documents for Tomcat or any Java container for that matter. That is probably because Java by design is relatively secure as it runs within a virtual machine so it

Re: how to harden tomcat?

2005-02-24 Thread Pete Stevens
Hi, My beginners guide is here (for tomcat on linux), it covers Running not as root. Restricting the permissions of the tomcat directories. http://www.mythic-beasts.com/support/topic_vds_java.html I'd also recommend removing all the management utilities from the webbased front end and a

Re: how to harden tomcat?

2005-02-23 Thread Patrick Lacson
Specifically authoritative articles on how to do this.. would be greatly appreciated. On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:24:12 -0800, Patrick Lacson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have any links/documents on how to harden tomcat? thanks, -- Patrick -- Patrick

Re: how to harden tomcat?

2005-02-23 Thread Peter Johnson
I haven't really come across hardening documents for Tomcat or any Java container for that matter. That is probably because Java by design is relatively secure as it runs within a virtual machine so it isn't possible to escape code etc and breakout into the OS kernel space. So basically run