Re: Tomcat User Permession

2005-10-27 Thread David Delbecq
Tomcat's main purpose is to serve webapplications, as defined by sun. Webapplication are suposed to be contained in a WAR, but tomcat allow to deploy content of war in a directory. WAR are zip files and do not support links, so does tomcat. It's follows the filesystem links only because it is unawa

Re: Tomcat User Permession

2005-10-26 Thread Mohammad Tag EL-Deen
the problem is: The intranet (website) contains many links to many folders, every folder has its own permission owner-group-other. i need to prevent the usr who havn't permission to access the folder( e.gftp) to access the link to this folder on the website. can i do this? On 10/26/05, David Delbe

Re: Tomcat User Permession

2005-10-26 Thread David Delbecq
Question is not clear, but i'll try to reply. All action attempted by any code inside the jvm running tomcat (that is operations done by JSP, servlet, realms, tomcat itself and any other java classes you may add to webapp) are done on behalf of the user which started tomcat. So if you start tomcat