Juha Laiho wrote:
>
> nitin403 wrote:
>> I have create a servlet which needs to read a file on a share folder.
>> When I run tomcat service as anonymous it is not able to access read this
>> file.
>> But when I run tomcat service as a user who as access to this file, then
>> it
>> runs fine.
>>
>> My Question is, is it possible to something similar to this in servlet
>> code
>> at run time for running the servlet in tomcat.
>
> No, you can't change Tomcat user at runtime. What you can do is to
> run Tomcat as a specific user, and allow that spcific user to access
> the files it needs to (via group membership or a per-account permission).
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Thanks for your help Juha Laiho.
The reason for my asking this question was that every time I deploy this
servlet on any system then I have to always make the tomcat to with the
user.
Is there no other way in java to read a file.
Thanks for your help in advance.
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