This is a patch to tomcat.sh that adds a -user flag to control who
tomcat executes as. I couldn't get it to work by having it just execute
the java command as the new user, so I have the script execute itself as
the new user, and pass along the information it needs from the parent's
environment (JAVA_HOME, JAVACMD, etc).
I don't know if this is suitable for inclusion in one of the maintenance
releases, but I thought perhaps somebody would get some good out of it.
Paul Frieden
--- jakarta-tomcat-3.2-src/src/shell/tomcat.sh-old Wed Nov 29 21:50:50 2000
+++ jakarta-tomcat-3.2-src/src/shell/tomcat.sh Thu Nov 30 11:32:02 2000
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
TOMCAT_HOME=/opt/tomcat
echo "Defaulting TOMCAT_HOME to $TOMCAT_HOME"
fi
-
+
# Add other "standard" locations for tomcat
fi
@@ -85,6 +85,21 @@
if [ "$JAVACMD" = "" ] ; then
# it may be defined in env - including flags!!
JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java
+fi
+
+if [ "$1" = "-user" ] ; then
+ if [ "x$2" = "x" ] ; then
+ echo "Must provide a user name with -user"
+ fi
+
+ # Convert TOMCAT_HOME to an absolute path...is there a better way to do this?
+ cd $TOMCAT_HOME
+ TOMCAT_HOME=`pwd`
+ cd -
+
+ echo "Becoming $2"
+ # Change users and re-execute this shell script without the -user command
+ exec su - $2 -c "TOMCAT_HOME=\"$TOMCAT_HOME\" PATH=\"\$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin/\"
+JAVA_HOME=\"$JAVA_HOME\" JAVACMD=\"$JAVACMD\" $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/$progname $3 $4 $5 $6
+$7 $8 $9"
fi
oldCP=$CLASSPATH
