Try redirecting port 80 to Tomcat's defaults:
http://jetty.mortbay.org/jetty/doc/User80.html
-Mensaje original-
De: Joe Tomcat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Enviado el: viernes, 06 de septiembre de 2002 7:39
Para: Tomcat Users List
Asunto: Starting and stopping Tomcat as non-root
I am
Subject: Starting and stopping Tomcat as non-root
Alternatively, is there a way to make Linux so that it lets any user
bind to any port? This must be root to bind to low ports
is the most
idiotic security measure in all of Unix land and has
resulted in more
breakins over the years than
.
-Original Message-
From: Joe Tomcat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 05 September, 2002 11:39 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Starting and stopping Tomcat as non-root
I am running Tomcat on port 80 (not using Apache) on Redhat 7.3.
Obviously, Tomcat needs to be root to listen on port 80
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To: 'Tomcat Users List' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 8:50 AM
Subject: RE: Starting and stopping Tomcat as non-root
Wow. Not to start a debate, but that's the silliest statement I've seen
in
awhile.
If you don't like how it works, change it. You have the source.
John
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Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:03 AM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: RE: Starting and stopping Tomcat as non-root
Lately, I have been thinking of writing a JNI library to call
setuid() and
setgid() to change the effective user ID and group ID of the
process after
it starts.
I'm
Alternatively, is there a way to make Linux so that it lets any user bind
to any port?
So you don't mind one of your machine's users (or a cracker who has
guessed a bad password) installing their own little fake webserver on port
80 that does {pick your poison}?
The practice of allowing only
I am running Tomcat on port 80 (not using Apache) on Redhat 7.3.
Obviously, Tomcat needs to be root to listen on port 80. Therefore, to
start it or stop it, I need to do that as root. The problem is that I
want to use ant tasks to start and stop it. I can easily have ant tasks
which execute
