Re: Security question - starting tomcat as non-root user

2007-04-11 Thread Jasbinder Singh Bali
Did you try running tomcat with JSVC. It'll run it as a deamon with the user privileges of your choicde On 4/11/07, Neil B. Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I didn't realize it could be that simple :) Thanks very much - I will give that a try... Much obliged, nbc On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 07:

Re: Security question - starting tomcat as non-root user

2007-04-11 Thread Neil B. Cohen
I didn't realize it could be that simple :) Thanks very much - I will give that a try... Much obliged, nbc On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 07:59 -0700, Hassan Schroeder wrote: > On 4/11/07, Neil B. Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Situation - I am installing tomcat and running it on port 8080. Ho

Re: Security question - starting tomcat as non-root user

2007-04-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On 4/11/07, Neil B. Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Situation - I am installing tomcat and running it on port 8080. However, it is currently being started by the root user and I need to change that. If I just run the startup script as user 'foo', I get errors because it can't read various conf