> And there's always option number 4 -- use jsvc from the commons-daemon > project to start tomcat safely as root and then drop root privilege for > normal operations. This will get you port 80 without the inherent risks > of running a process as root. Tomcat's bin directory has an archive of > the jsvc source for building and there are binaries for some platforms > on the website: > > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/daemon > Interesting, I didn't know about that one, thanks
Gaël