Re: Security question about Multiple instances of Tomcat running as non-admin users on a single box

2011-01-25 Thread Guy Pontecorvo
Our decision to replace the Mac os Xservers with Windows is purely financial. We already run our software on Windows and though Linux would be a good choice it is less expensive to support a single platform. We run as many as 15 apps on a single xServe box. The corresponding Oracle 10g databases

Re: Security question about Multiple instances of Tomcat running as non-admin users on a single box

2011-01-25 Thread Brett Delle Grazie
Hi, On 25 January 2011 18:00, Guy Pontecorvo guy.ponteco...@pearson.com wrote: We run as many as 15 apps on a single xServe box. The corresponding Oracle 10g databases run on a separate server. Everything is automated. Start up, shutdown, updates etc. are scripted and executed using sudo.

Re: Security question about Multiple instances of Tomcat running as non-admin users on a single box

2011-01-22 Thread Brett Delle Grazie
On 21 January 2011 19:29, Jeffrey Janner jeffrey.jan...@polydyne.com wrote: Guy - Why switch to Windows when you can still get OSX Server for Mac Pros or Minis? Why run Windows at all when you can switch to Linux and have all the command line goodness you were used to in Xserver? ;) That

Re: Security question about Multiple instances of Tomcat running as non-admin users on a single box

2011-01-22 Thread Michael Ludwig
Guy Pontecorvo schrieb am 21.01.2011 um 09:56 (-0800): We currently run multiple instances of tomcat Version 6.0.20, each in its own non-admin user account under Mac OSX 10.5. This has been a great way to host multiple web applications (student information systems) on a single box. Each app

Re: Security question about Multiple instances of Tomcat running as non-admin users on a single box

2011-01-22 Thread Pid
On 1/21/11 5:56 PM, Guy Pontecorvo wrote: Because Xserve is being discontinued we are considering the possibility of migrating our environment to Windows 2008 R2 The JDK tools have a few more small functions on *nix than Windows - small but rather useful. This IMHO, is one key reason to stick

Security question about Multiple instances of Tomcat running as non-admin users on a single box

2011-01-21 Thread Guy Pontecorvo
We currently run multiple instances of tomcat Version 6.0.20, each in its own non-admin user account under Mac OSX 10.5. This has been a great way to host multiple web applications (student information systems) on a single box. Each app is secure in its own user account space and can't read or

RE: Security question about Multiple instances of Tomcat running as non-admin users on a single box

2011-01-21 Thread Jeffrey Janner
Guy - Why switch to Windows when you can still get OSX Server for Mac Pros or Minis? That out of the way, Tomcat works basically the same on Windows as on Mac, except where running as a service is concerned. Yes, Tomcat will respect Windows permission settings, etc., just like any other