Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-19 Thread André Warnier
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Curtis Garman [mailto:curt.gar...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address yes...this is what I was told...thanks all for the info Unfortunately, pretty much all of what André wrote was wrong, as Mark explained. I apologise for the nonsense I

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-19 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 2/19/2010 5:45 AM, André Warnier wrote: - Since address 127.0.0.1 is the local loopback address on any host, a process can only connect to it from the local host, and from nowhere else. Yes, but things like SSH tunnels can be used to

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-19 Thread André Warnier
Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 2/19/2010 5:45 AM, André Warnier wrote: - Since address 127.0.0.1 is the local loopback address on any host, a process can only connect to it from the local host, and from nowhere else. Yes, but things like

tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Curtis Garman
I'm moving from tomcat 5.5.25 to tomcat 6.0.18 and have noticed one problem. I use to be able to define the following in my server.xml Server port=8005 shutdown=SHUTDOWN *address=127.0.0.1* ... /Server but now the address portion won't work...I only want shutdown commands to be able to come from

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Pid
On 18/02/2010 15:14, Curtis Garman wrote: I'm moving from tomcat 5.5.25 to tomcat 6.0.18 and have noticed one problem. I use to be able to define the following in my server.xml Server port=8005 shutdown=SHUTDOWN *address=127.0.0.1* ... /Server but now the address portion won't work...I only

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Curtis Garman
Is this something new for tomcat 6?...I was told there was a security vulnerability there with tomcat 5 On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Pid p...@pidster.com wrote: On 18/02/2010 15:14, Curtis Garman wrote: I'm moving from tomcat 5.5.25 to tomcat 6.0.18 and have noticed one problem. I use

RE: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Curtis Garman [mailto:curt.gar...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address Is this something new for tomcat 6?...I was told there was a security vulnerability there with tomcat 5 You were misinformed. The shutdown port has always been open only on 127.0.0.1. Tomcat 6

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Mark Thomas
On 18/02/2010 15:42, Curtis Garman wrote: Is this something new for tomcat 6?...I was told there was a security vulnerability there with tomcat 5 By whom? It has been this way since Tomcat 4. The issue, if I recall correctly, was with some of the Tomcat 3 releases. Mark On Thu, Feb 18,

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread André Warnier
Curtis Garman wrote: Is this something new for tomcat 6?...I was told there was a security vulnerability there with tomcat 5 Yes. At some point in time inversion 5.0 or 5.5 or 6.0, someone realised that if this shutdown port allowed connections from anywhere, there was a theoretical

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread André Warnier
Mark Thomas wrote: On 18/02/2010 15:42, Curtis Garman wrote: Is this something new for tomcat 6?...I was told there was a security vulnerability there with tomcat 5 By whom? It has been this way since Tomcat 4. The issue, if I recall correctly, was with some of the Tomcat 3 releases.

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Pid
On 18/02/2010 15:42, Curtis Garman wrote: Is this something new for tomcat 6?...I was told there was a security vulnerability there with tomcat 5 I don't see an address property in either of the below: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/server.html

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Curtis Garman
yes...this is what I was told...thanks all for the info On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:52 AM, André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com wrote: Curtis Garman wrote: Is this something new for tomcat 6?...I was told there was a security vulnerability there with tomcat 5 Yes. At some point in time inversion

RE: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Curtis Garman [mailto:curt.gar...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address yes...this is what I was told...thanks all for the info Unfortunately, pretty much all of what André wrote was wrong, as Mark explained. So again, what you were told was false. - Chuck

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Pid
On 18/02/2010 23:08, Curtis Garman wrote: yes...this is what I was told... thanks all for the info To be clear: Mark's answer is the correct one. p On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:52 AM, André Warniera...@ice-sa.com wrote: Curtis Garman wrote: Is this something new for tomcat 6?...I was