Look at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/windows-service-howto.htmland see the --user parameter under command line parameters.
-- D On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Amit Agarwal <ami....@gmail.com> wrote: > Tomat on Linux starts as root to bind to > port 80, and then switches effective user id to nobody. Windows does not > appear to have concept of changing effective user. Tomcat service runs > as a local system on Windows. Need to change the user for Tomcat > after binding to port 80. > > How can this be achieved? > > -- > > Sent from Karnataka, India >