Re: Changing tomcat's group

2006-05-01 Thread Aria Bamdad
Bob makes an excellent point. The find command will take care of any existing directories. Thanks Bob. Aria. On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Bob Hall said: --- Aria Bamdad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Solved!!! The solution is to use the linux group sticky bit to force any files

Re: Changing tomcat's group

2006-04-28 Thread Aria Bamdad
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:08:27 -0500 you said: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:55:40PM -0400, Aria Bamdad wrote: I have several applications running in different directories. Each application is owned by a different linux owner/group. In order for Tomcat to be able to read these files to serve them,

Re: Changing tomcat's group [OT]

2006-04-28 Thread Aria Bamdad
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:09:44 -0700 (PDT) Bob Hall said: How about making each application owner a member of the 'tomcat' group. Bob, making each app owner a member of the tomcat group will allow different app owners to look at each other's files. For security, I need to keep each applications

Re: Changing tomcat's group

2006-04-28 Thread Aria Bamdad
Solved!!! The solution is to use the linux group sticky bit to force any files created in a directory (and subdirectories) to have the same group as the parent. For example let's say there are two applications, one for accounting and one for payroll. If you create a directory for accounting

Re: Changing tomcat's group [OT]

2006-04-28 Thread Bob Hall
--- Aria Bamdad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:09:44 -0700 (PDT) Bob Hall said: How about making each application owner a member of the 'tomcat' group. Bob, making each app owner a member of the tomcat group will allow different app owners to look at each other's

Re: Changing tomcat's group

2006-04-28 Thread Bob Hall
--- Aria Bamdad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Solved!!! The solution is to use the linux group sticky bit to force any files created in a directory (and subdirectories) to have the same group as the parent. For example let's say there are two applications, one for accounting and one for

Changing tomcat's group

2006-04-27 Thread Aria Bamdad
Hi, I have several applications running in different directories. Each application is owned by a different linux owner/group. In order for Tomcat to be able to read these files to serve them, the Tomcat has as it's secondary groups, the group names of each application. The problem I am having

Re: Changing tomcat's group [OT]

2006-04-27 Thread Bob Hall
--- Eric Haszlakiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:55:40PM -0400, Aria Bamdad wrote: I have several applications running in different directories. Each application is owned by a different linux owner/group. In order for Tomcat to be able to read these files