Another option if your main goal is to get tomcat bound to port 80 is to use
port forwarding (e.g. iptables works well on linux). Then tomcat can run as
any old user on a non-privileged port such as 8080 and you redirect all
incoming port 80 traffic to the actual tomcat port.
Andrew
On 6/29/06,
Sean Machin wrote:
> I'm setting up a Linux server with Tomcat that will be used for field
> trialing. The server will be connected
> to the public Internet. Is it typical practice to have Tomcat installed
> and running as root on a system
> like this, or should it be running as a less privileged
I run mine as nobody:nogroup.
--j
-Original Message-
From: Sean Machin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 4:20 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Running Tomcat as root on Linux
Hi All,
I'm setting up a Linux server with Tomcat that will be used for
Hi All,
I'm setting up a Linux server with Tomcat that will be used for field
trialing. The server will be connected
to the public Internet. Is it typical practice to have Tomcat installed
and running as root on a system
like this, or should it be running as a less privileged user?
Thanks for a
