On Friday 06 December 2002 05:27, Sanjaya Singharage wrote:
This is a follow up to the post why run romcat as root (I meant to say
why run tomcat as nobody).
After reading all the replies. My solution would be to run apache as root
on port 80 and then run tomcat behind the scenes using a
I prefer to use a didicated user (like tomcat)
to give him the just the rights that are needed
to run tomcat and the application.
If there is more than one application using the
user nobody this user starts to get to much rights
in mosts cases.
Explanation:
To run an application under a
'nobody' would be a bad choice. You'd be better off creating a user called
tomcat or something similar and running tomcat as that user.
John
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