On 16 Dec 2002, Felipe Schnack wrote:

> Date: 16 Dec 2002 15:43:09 -0200
> From: Felipe Schnack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: ContainerServlet interface
>
>   The security holes it opens are related to what programmers can do or
> related to end users of the application? Can you give me examples?
>   You kinda worried me now :-)

Setting privileged=true lets your webapp call any method on any internal
Catalina object.  Among other things, that lets you affect *other*
webapps.  After all, the Manager servlet uses this facility to deploy and
undeploy them, and the Admin webapp uses this facility to configure the
server.

Craig


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