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Rob,

Rob Tanner wrote:
> How do I run Tomcat as a non-root user?  I need to be able to bind to
> ports 80 & 443 which are privileged ports.  I know that with straight
> Apache the user that it runs as is configured in httpd.conf.  It starts
> up as root, binds to the ports and then drops its privileges.  However,
> I'm running Tomcat as stand-alone.  So, is there some mechanism in
> Tomcat to accomplish the same thing?

RTFM / GIYF / whatever:

http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Securing_tomcat#Using_Port_80
http://tomcat.apache.org/faq/security.html#root
http://tomcat.apache.org/faq/security.html#jsvcExample

- -chris

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