Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI
Okay great. I'll check the docs on that once I get the server side stuff running right. Thanks for all the hel. Roberto David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/15/2005 10:59 AM Please respond to "Tomcat Users List" To Tomcat Users List cc Subject Re: Security Quest

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread David Smith
a real proxy server. Thanks. > >Roberto > > > >Hassan Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >08/15/2005 10:30 AM >Please respond to >"Tomcat Users List" > > >To >Tomcat Users List >cc > >Subject >Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat >

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI
sers List" To Tomcat Users List cc Subject Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI wrote: > Understood. But I do not want to use Tomcat proxying services. I just want > to host 8080 locally and let my ipfilter firewall block and proxy for

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI wrote: Understood. But I do not want to use Tomcat proxying services. I just want to host 8080 locally and let my ipfilter firewall block and proxy for me. Then the default Tomcat configuration of listening on port 8080 is just what you need. I highly recommend makin

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI
cc Subject Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI wrote: > Hmmm. Well take a look at this entry from the server.xml file: > > > > > > I did not add this and from what I can tell this comes with the default > config. An

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI wrote: Hmmm. Well take a look at this entry from the server.xml file: I did not add this and from what I can tell this comes with the default config. Any info? About what? This is in the Fine Manual -- see the Connector documentation under tomcat-d

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI
network admin is giving me much grief about allowing port 8080 access to >>the web. >> >>Thanks >> >> >> >> >> >>Paul Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>08/12/2005 10:08 AM >>Please respond to >>"Tomcat Users List"

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread David Smith
> > > >I did not add this and from what I can tell this comes with the default >config. Any info? > >Roberto > > > > >David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >08/12/2005 11:40 AM >Please respond to >"Tomcat Users List" >

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI
omcat Users List cc Subject Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat This sounds really fishy. Tomcat does not by default have any connectors configured for port 80. There must be another service or you've modified your server.xml somehow. --David Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI wrot

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Leandro Meiners wrote: Where can I find documentation regarding limting HTTP methods using security-constraints? The Security section of the Servlet 2.4 Spec (SRV.12) has some good examples -- highly recommended :-) FWIW! -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] We

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread Leandro Meiners
Tim, list: Where can I find documentation regarding limting HTTP methods using security-constraints? All I was able to do was requiere authentication in order to use some HTTP methods but I would like to limit them like it can be donde with the directive "Limit" in Apache. I will also appreciate

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread David Smith
I don't know -- I can see some value to the root only ports below 1024. It prevents non-privileged users from stealing trusted service ports in a mainframe environment -- not that that's a reality anymore. The best way to handle this in a production environment is to use the commons-daemon projec

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread David Smith
work admin is giving me much grief about allowing port 8080 access to >the web. > >Thanks > > > > > >Paul Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >08/12/2005 10:08 AM >Please respond to >"Tomcat Users List" > > >To >Tomcat Users List >cc >

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread David Smith
n >to use ports under 1000. > >Ralph B. Harrell >UNC Charlotte >Manager, Oracle Database Administration >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >(704) 687-2951 >-Original Message- >From: Alon Belman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:20 PM >To: Tomcat U

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI wrote: Apparently T5 comes with a port 80 proxy server a special servlet container or something. Basically I have ipfilter running and only allow access to port 8080, but if you send a request to 80 tTomcat picks up and does some sort of internal redirect to port 8

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI
D]> Subject Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat Harrell, Ralph wrote: > I would like to be able to start TOMCAT as a non-root > user but am unable to as we are running SSL and use > port 443 and non-root users do not have the permission > to use ports under 1000. ...not

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread Paul Singleton
Harrell, Ralph wrote: I would like to be able to start TOMCAT as a non-root user but am unable to as we are running SSL and use port 443 and non-root users do not have the permission to use ports under 1000. ...not in Linux and some (all?) Unix variants, anyway. (FWIW I think this root-only-b

RE: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread Harrell, Ralph
-Original Message- From: Alon Belman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:20 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat copied "share" to meb/robo laters! On 8/11/05, LFM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim, > > Th

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-11 Thread Tim Funk
Setting the server header is a tomcat 5.5 feature. -Tim LFM wrote: Tim, Thanks for the reply, but I can't get in working: In conf/server.xml I added server="TEST", as shown: Stopped, started Tomcat. nc'ed to localhost, but still got the old server header. $ nc localhost 8180 GET / HTTP/

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-11 Thread Alon Belman
copied "share" to meb/robo laters! On 8/11/05, LFM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim, > > Thanks for the reply, but I can't get in working: > > In conf/server.xml I added server="TEST", as shown: > > > port="8180" minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75" > enableLookups="true" acceptCount="10" de

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-11 Thread LFM
Tim, Thanks for the reply, but I can't get in working: In conf/server.xml I added server="TEST", as shown: Stopped, started Tomcat. nc'ed to localhost, but still got the old server header. $ nc localhost 8180 GET / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Location: http://localhost.localdom

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-11 Thread Tim Funk
The Server header can be configured in the declaration. server='Sun Solaris IIS/6.0' To limit the HTTP methods this can be done a few ways; 1) Use a servlet filter 2) Use web.xml and security constraints on those method types 3) ??? -Tim LFM wrote: Hi! I'm hardening a Web Server running T

Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-11 Thread LFM
Hi! I'm hardening a Web Server running Tomcat for a client, but I'm having difficulty in finding information on how to accomplish the following tasks (bored of googling so I decided to ask here): 1. Remove/modify the banner presented by the coyote connector on the server header of an http reply. 2