Re: running on 80 as user

[Tim O'Neil]

At 08:23 AM 6/27/2001, you wrote:
>Can I run Tomcat as standalone on port 80, as a user instead of as
>root? Thanks.

No, regular users aren't supposed to have access to any
ports below 1024 on a unix machine. Which is posix standard.
Before you mention it apache (and netscape and etc) can do it
because they run a native administrative process that runs
under root.