Excellent, this is what I was looking for. How do you switch to another user? Is that configurable in the tomcat configs or do I do it at the system level (through the startup.sh or catalina.sh scripts)?
> -----Original Message----- > From: David Bank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Running Tomcat as a user other than root > > > That's correct - on most (if not all) *NIX implementations, > you cannot bind to Post 80 except as a super-user. There's no > equivalent restriction in Windoze. > > However, once that binding is established, the process can > Run As under a different user ID. This is typical of Apache > installs on UNIX - mine is launched from root for the > binding, but switches to a dedicated user ID to run under. > > Dave Bank > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/19/02 01:46PM >>> > > on unix? i was under the impression that you could not bind > to port 80 as a > user other than root. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter Choe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:41 AM > > To: Tomcat Users List; 'Tomcat Users List' > > Subject: Re: Running Tomcat as a user other than root > > > > > > i was able to create a tomcat user and run it as tomcat > > instead of root. > > > > i su to tomcat user and start catalina.sh. > > > > At 01:33 PM 4/19/2002, Jay Wright wrote: > > > > >On solaris, is it possible to run tomcat as a user other than root? > > >Hopefully a config that can be set? > > > > > >Jay > > > > > >-- > > >To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >For additional commands: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Troubles with the list: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Troubles with the list: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
