Howdy,

>A developer has a servlet that needs to change the uid for the process
that
>runs it to do some shared memory operations.  Right now when this
servlet
>runs it is changing the uid of the root process for Tomcat which causes
>other servlets to stop working. This is bad.
>Is this something that I am supposed to configure in the server.xml or
>global web.xml?

No, tomcat provide no such features.  You can accomplish this (I think)
on a Java level (not OS-level) using the AccessController#doPriviledged
approach.  (See javadoc for java.security.AccessController for more
details).

Yoav Shapira



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