Point taken LOL :) Well I bought Real World Linux Security by Toxen (Open Source Tech Series) and The RedHat 7.3 Bible, which I am finding isn't that much different than the documentation that came from the software. Barnes & Noble store had a crappy selection - need to look online for a full fledge "system administration" book. The security book is pretty good (for what I have glanced at so far) - its most up to date I saw too. But my oh my is there a lot to be learned!! :)
Denise -----Original Message----- From: Turner, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:16 PM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: [OFF-TOPIC] RE: Na�ve question about root Perfect example why you shouldn't stay logged in as root, and should only be root when necessary. LOL John > -----Original Message----- > From: Turner, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:15 PM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: [OFF-TOPIC] RE: Na�ve question about root > > > > Ooops, typing too fast. That should be "chown", not "chmod". > > John > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Turner, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:14 PM > > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > > Subject: RE: [OFF-TOPIC] RE: Na�ve question about root > > > > > > > > Good point, you are probably right on the PPID thing, I > > hadn't considered > > that scenario. > > > > I usually set my tomcat permissions like this: > > > > chmod -R tomcat:tomcat $CATALINA_HOME > > > > If possible, you want to use deploy tools to deploy your app, > > then you don't > > have developers logging into the server and editing files > > directly, this > > makes handling users, groups, and permissions much easier. > > You have to > > decide where the tradeoff is...increased security vs. decreased > > administration and flexibility and vice versa. > > > > So, what books did you buy? LOL ;) > > > > John > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Denise Mangano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:07 PM > > > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > > > Subject: RE: [OFF-TOPIC] RE: Na�ve question about root > > > > > > > > > John - > > > > > > Have you ever been, or thought of being a professor? ; ) > > > Actually, I don't > > > think Tomcat was running at boot because after I rebooted the > > > server I could > > > not access the index page through my website:8080. > > > > > > I think I see my mistake. What I did was I created a group > > > tomcat and a > > > user tomcat under that group, and I added myself to that > > > group and made > > > myself owner of just the webapps directory. I kept owner > > of the other > > > directories such as bin as owned by root. So when I went to > > > start Tomcat as > > > myself, it gave me a permission denied. So I used the "su -" > > > command and > > > started it as root. I am going to change owner of the > entire tomcat > > > directory to myself. And I will give user tomcat > executable rights. > > > > > > After starting Tomcat manually I was able to see > > > mywebsite:8080/index.jsp. > > > Maybe the PPID of the first java process is 1 only because I > > > started it as > > > root (looking at the file it seems all processes that were > > > started as root > > > have a PPID of 1)... > > > > > > Thanks :) > > > > > > Denise Mangano > > > Help Desk Analyst > > > Complus Data Innovations, Inc. > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
