> 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

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