Re: running tomcat with root user.....umask in jsvc?

2009-02-05 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, I know I'm a bit late, but... André Warnier wrote: André Warnier wrote: epicwin...@hotmail.com wrote: You are correct, I found a setting that relaxes the group access permissions on the jailkit. Now I just have one more problem. When

RE: running tomcat with root user.....umask in jsvc?

2009-02-02 Thread epicwin...@hotmail.com
tomcat using jsvc? Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:58:11 -0800 From: rusty.wri...@gmail.com To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: running tomcat with root user Are you sure about the group write permissions? I glanced at the jailkit web page and it looks like it's sugar coating and chrome around

Re: running tomcat with root user.....umask in jsvc?

2009-02-02 Thread André Warnier
epicwin...@hotmail.com wrote: You are correct, I found a setting that relaxes the group access permissions on the jailkit. Now I just have one more problem. When tomcat creates files in these user directories I need the permissions to be set appropriately. What is the best way to set the

Re: running tomcat with root user.....umask in jsvc?

2009-02-02 Thread André Warnier
André Warnier wrote: epicwin...@hotmail.com wrote: You are correct, I found a setting that relaxes the group access permissions on the jailkit. Now I just have one more problem. When tomcat creates files in these user directories I need the permissions to be set appropriately. What is the

RE: running tomcat with root user.....umask in jsvc?

2009-02-02 Thread epicwin...@hotmail.com
002 in my ./etc/init.d/tomcat start up script it seems to fix the problem but i think this is setting that umask for more than just tomcat so i am not sure how safe that is. Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 21:05:15 +0100 From: a...@ice-sa.com To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: running tomcat

Re: running tomcat with root user.....umask in jsvc?

2009-02-02 Thread André Warnier
epicwin...@hotmail.com wrote: That is a possible solution. There is a fairly heavy amount of files uploaded from many different users so it would mean a lot of configuration and a lot of maintenance to that config as i add new users. So I am trying to avoid the operating system chmod commands

RE: running tomcat with root user.....umask in jsvc?

2009-02-02 Thread epicwin...@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 22:00:24 +0100 From: a...@ice-sa.com To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: running tomcat with root user.umask in jsvc? epicwin...@hotmail.com wrote: That is a possible solution. There is a fairly heavy amount of files uploaded from many different users

Re: running tomcat with root user.....umask in jsvc?

2009-02-02 Thread André Warnier
epicwin...@hotmail.com wrote: [...] I'm not a great security specialist, but your setup looks indeed safe enough, if the users are chrooted to their home directories. I can't imagine how they could break out and access things they shouldn't. Just one more question : how do you arrange to know

RE: running tomcat with root user.....umask in jsvc?

2009-02-02 Thread epicwin...@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 00:10:30 +0100 From: a...@ice-sa.com To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: running tomcat with root user.umask in jsvc? epicwin...@hotmail.com wrote: [...] I'm not a great security specialist, but your setup looks indeed safe enough, if the users

Re: running tomcat with root user.....umask in jsvc?

2009-02-02 Thread Rusty Wright
-sa.com To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: running tomcat with root user.umask in jsvc? epicwin...@hotmail.com wrote: That is a possible solution. There is a fairly heavy amount of files uploaded from many different users so it would mean a lot of configuration and a lot of maintenance

Re: running tomcat with root user

2009-02-01 Thread André Warnier
epicwin...@hotmail.com wrote: I have the latest tomcat 6 installed under centos 5.2. The problem I am having is that it appears that I have to run tomcat as root user, because the spring app that tomcat starts needs to write files to other users' home directories. The tomcat user doesn't

RE: running tomcat with root user

2009-02-01 Thread Peter Crowther
From: epicwin...@hotmail.com [mailto:epicwin...@hotmail.com] I have the latest tomcat 6 installed under centos 5.2. The problem I am having is that it appears that I have to run tomcat as root user, because the spring app that tomcat starts needs to write files to other users' home

Re: running tomcat with root user

2009-02-01 Thread Brian Millett
On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 19:25 -0800, epicwin...@hotmail.com wrote: I have the latest tomcat 6 installed under centos 5.2. The problem I am having is that it appears that I have to run tomcat as root user, because the spring app that tomcat starts needs to write files to other users' home

RE: running tomcat with root user

2009-02-01 Thread Peter Crowther
From: Brian Millett [mailto:bmill...@gmail.com] On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 19:25 -0800, epicwin...@hotmail.com wrote: I have the latest tomcat 6 installed under centos 5.2. The problem I am having is that it appears that I have to run tomcat as root user, because the spring app that tomcat

RE: running tomcat with root user

2009-02-01 Thread epicwin...@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 11:04:10 +0100 From: a...@ice-sa.com To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: running tomcat with root user epicwin...@hotmail.com wrote: I have the latest tomcat 6 installed under centos 5.2. The problem I am having is that it appears that I have to run

RE: running tomcat with root user

2009-02-01 Thread epicwin...@hotmail.com
From: peter.crowt...@melandra.com To: users@tomcat.apache.org Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:59:33 + Subject: RE: running tomcat with root user From: epicwin...@hotmail.com [mailto:epicwin...@hotmail.com] I have the latest tomcat 6 installed under centos 5.2. The problem I am having

Re: running tomcat with root user

2009-02-01 Thread André Warnier
epicwin...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reply and suggestion , i am doing some heavy reading right now on ACLs. Very interesting, looks like a possible solution. I am doing this on a remote server with one drive so I am a little nervous about making these changes and seeing if it comes

Re: running tomcat with root user

2009-02-01 Thread Rusty Wright
Are you sure about the group write permissions? I glanced at the jailkit web page and it looks like it's sugar coating and chrome around a chroot. So I would think that using unix groups would work. And on the flip side, if unix groups don't work, it seems to me that ACLs wouldn't either.

RE: Running tomcat under root user

2007-07-13 Thread Peter Crowther
From: Sridhar Kulkarni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to run the tomcat server as root usser... I am not able to find the documentation for running tomcat under root user on Ubuntu. Please any one has any idea? su cd tomcat install directory/bin ./startup.sh Or am I missing something