Gaurav Kushwaha wrote: > I read somewhere that if I want to run Tomcat standalone on port 80, I will > have to run it as root and that this is potentially unsafe.
That's in no way Tomcat-specific. On Unix-like systems an application needs root privileges to be able to bind to ports with numbers < 1024. > Is there any > way for me to run it on port 80 without having to give the root privileges > to the process. Aside from the techniques others have already mentioned, there's jsvc. It will allow Tomcat to bind to privileged ports and drop privileges afterwards. You should find the sources in the "bin" directory of your Tomcat distribution. More info here: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/daemon/ Especially: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/daemon/jsvc.html 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]
