Thanks Jan,
You covered what I was looking for.
Brent
At 09:26 PM 4/22/2001 , you wrote:
>You have to define what you mean by:
>
> > nobody else to be able to get to it
> > (home directory/ or webapps/userName/).
>
>If you want people not to be able to see other people work, the answer is
>that only tomcat running as root can see everybodys stuff, when their
>directory permssions are 700, but then, if they are smart, they will write
>a servlet which will read other people's dirs and run it from within
>TOMCAT. If you only want people not to be able to write to other people
>dirs, you just tell them to have files with read permission to everybody
>including tomcat.
>If you want to prevent people from seeing each other stuff (and prevent them
>from exploiting tomcat to see other people stuff), then, sorry to say,
>you have to have a separate tomcat for everybody, running with this person
>user id, all files readable only by this user (i.e., permissions 600 and
>700 for dirs).
>
>Jan
>
>
>On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Brent and Maria wrote:
>
> > Hello tomcat users,
> > This is a re-post. I got one answer, but I am looking for
> another way.
> >
> > I am trying to set up tomcat-apache on a linux machine. There are several
> > accounts on the machine and all of them need to use tomcat. I want
> > everyone's work in their own place and nobody else to be able to get to it
> > (home directory/ or webapps/userName/). Is there a standard for doing this?
> >
> > How do you set up tomcat to look in separate folders/directories for
> > jsps/servlets for each user?
> > Please let me know (if I have been specific enough) if you know of any way
> > to do this (or any resources that you can point me at to help me). I was
> > thinking that I would create everyone a separte folder under the /webapps
> > dir, but I was unsure about priviledges...
> >
> > Thanks ahead for the help, Brent
> >
>
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