Chuck, I'm already following up on this on a different thread, however it seems possible to run Tomcat on a non-privileged port with a non-root account and have requests for port 443 redirected to Tomcat's listening port. This way Tomcat can run as non-root and no need to compile and use JSVC. I haven't done this yet, which is why I started the "JSVC vs startup / shutdown scripts" thread.
Would love your $0.02, A- On 10/30/08 1:56 PM, "Caldarale, Charles R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From: Petr Sumbera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: relation between Tomcat and Apache Commons >> >> Btw I don't see any benefit using jsvc. Is somebody using it? Why? > > Judging from the comments on this list, many people are using it. The primary > reason is to avoid running Tomcat as root (principle of least privilege) when > using ports 80 and 443. > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its > attachments from all computers. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Andrew R. Feller, Analyst Information Technology Services 200 Fred Frey Building Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (225) 578-3737 (Office) (225) 578-6400 (Fax) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
