Martin Gainty wrote:
Good Afternoon Bill
did you have a chance to take a look at the how to for configuring Windows
domain controller
(to enable Tomcat to support Windows authentication)
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/windows-auth-howto.html#Built-in_Tomcat_support
Does this help?
Probably not at all, except in utterly confusing the OP, if he is not familiar
with this list.
He's not asking about authenticating Tomcat users.
He's asking about running Tomcat as a normal Windows user, as opposed to
"LocalSystem" e.g.
Bill,
- create a local user, e.g. "tomcat"
- stop Tomcat
- use whatever path the Microsoft geniuses have invented this week to reach the Services
applet
- search for the "Apache Tomcat" Service
- right click on it and select Settings or Properties (ditto)
- in the tab "Login as" (or ditto), change the account to the one you just
created
- before you restart Tomcat, make sure that all it's files/directories can be read/written
by this user
- then restart Tomcat
As long as the Tomcat process (and any of its webapps) does not need any Windows network
resources (network "shares" or printers or the like), you'll be fine.
If you need any of these, then you'll have to use a Domain user instead of a
local one.
(Note that Tomcat probably does not need any of those, since it was running fine as
"LocalSystem" and that user does not have access to Windows network resources either).
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