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, Markus Schönhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 user? The latter. One of the possible options you might want to consider in this case is jsvc - it's source code comes with the Tomcat distribution and is located in the bin directory. It allows you to run Tomcat without root priviledges and nevertheless bind to privileged ports. Regards mks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
