Hello,
My students do not login as root, but I want them to be able to start
Tomcat. Is this possible?
Right now they get Permission Denied message.
Thanks,
Ravi Kulkarni
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If each student runs their own tomcat instance, then just have tomcat listen
on a port above 1024.
-Tim
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Hello,
My students do not login as root, but I want them to be able to start
Tomcat. Is this possible?
Right now they get Permission Denied message.
Thanks,
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 19:30, Tim Funk wrote:
If each student runs their own tomcat instance, then just have tomcat
listen on a port above 1024.
Plus they would each need an instance of Tomcat in their home directory, I'd
say that's where the permission denied is coming from it's probably
there is a utility called sudo that enables you to give regular users
permissions to run commands as privileged users. If you use it, your
users will be able to stop/start tomcat, while it is installed in
another account (in your case root), without being able to su to root.
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True, but it doesn't help much if everyone has a Tomcat configured to
listen on port 80.
If I have 10 students, and they each need their own Tomcat instance, using
ports less than 1024 doesn't make much sense, as there are other network
services in that port space. So using 1024 doesn't need
