Re: starting as root but then running as TOMCAT_USER

2001-12-14 Thread Jan Labanowski
There is another way (there always is...). People do not seem to appreciate that this is not a problem if you want to spend $30 or something on some old 100MHz Pentium PC in a surplus store in an el chipo computer store (or go to surplus of some University). You can install Linux on this, build

starting as root but then running as TOMCAT_USER

2001-12-14 Thread Josh Knowles
I downloaded and installed tomcat 4.0.1 from the rpms and have it all running but it looks like I have to set TOMCAT_USER to root if I want to run it on port 80. Is there a way to bind to port 80 using root but then run as TOMCAT_USER? I believe Apache does something like this. Thanks, Josh -