On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 08:23:04AM -0500, James T. Studebaker wrote: : Yes, Tomcat runs as tomcat:nobody. I can not run Tomcat as jims:jims since : jims is a virtual host account. I should have mentioned this in my initial : email.
Yes, since the statement "The app user is jims and my group is jims" may lead someone to believe that Tomcat runs as jims:jims (or at least that the user is jims). : However Tomcat runs as tomcat:nobody, the default configuration. All users : need to have the ability to create and read data files with the owner:group : of their own accounts. Can this be done? Directly? no. Independence from the underlying OS is a big part of Java, not to mention Java webapps. With a layer of abstraction? Likely. You could move all needed auth/security to the database layer, if you get a private database (or at least private tables). That would mean you'd store the files in the database. This setup wouldn't sync with the existing (system) user/password tables, but for most of the webapps I've seen/written, this is a feature. =) -QM -- software -- http://www.brandxdev.net/ tech news -- http://www.RoarNetworX.com/ code scan -- http://www.JxRef.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
