Re: Security Best Practices on Windows Service

2014-11-07 Thread Terence M. Bandoian
On 11/5/2014 1:34 PM, Igal @ getRailo.org wrote: hi, what are the security best practices for running Tomcat as a Windows Service? is the local system account safe or am I better off creating a new user and giving it write permissions only to the Tomcat runtime folders and read permissions to

Re: Security Best Practices on Windows Service

2014-11-06 Thread Aurélien Terrestris
In my previous employment, we did that. Create a local user account and set permissions to the Tomcat installation directory and optional CATALINA_BASE (if you separated them). I agree with this (done hundreds of times), and you can set rights with xcacls. However this reminds us that usually

Re: Security Best Practices on Windows Service

2014-11-06 Thread Aurélien Terrestris
In my previous employment, we did that. Create a local user account and set permissions to the Tomcat installation directory and optional CATALINA_BASE (if you separated them). I agree with this (done hundreds of times), and you can set rights with xcacls. However this reminds us that usually

Security Best Practices on Windows Service

2014-11-05 Thread Igal @ getRailo.org
hi, what are the security best practices for running Tomcat as a Windows Service? is the local system account safe or am I better off creating a new user and giving it write permissions only to the Tomcat runtime folders and read permissions to the web contents folder? TIA -- Igal Sapir Railo

Re: Security Best Practices on Windows Service

2014-11-05 Thread Leo Donahue
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Igal @ getRailo.org i...@getrailo.org wrote: hi, what are the security best practices for running Tomcat as a Windows Service? is the local system account safe Define safe. LocalSystem has too many privs that a Tomcat service account doesn't need in my