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Peter,

On 5/13/20 02:48, logo wrote:
> Hi calder,
>
>
>> Am 13.05.2020 um 04:59 schrieb calder <calder....@gmail.com>:
>>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2020, 21:48 kohmoto <kohm...@iris.eonet.ne.jp>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Calder,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your prompt reply. I think Tomcat binary files
>>> all have root priviledges. Should these priviledges should be
>>> changed to user priviledges?
>>>
>>
>>
>> Yes.
>
> I would suggest to leave the binaries and maybe even config files
> to root or any other admin. So a hacked tomcat process under tomcat
> user will not be able to exchange config or even binaries.
Yes! There really is no need for Tomcat to modify its own config files
or binaries.

> That will only work if the config will not be changed via
> host-manager or programmatically.

This shouldn't be too much of a problem. Not many people use the
host-manager.

> In the past we even held the installed webapps under a different
> user. but that maybe difficult in automated deployments.

This is less important IMO. The owner of the files can be anybody...
just not the Tomcat user.

And, before anybody says "but.. but... Docker!" you should remember
that root in a Docker container often ends up having many more
privileges outside the container than you think it does/should.

- -chris
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