You are correct, I found a setting that relaxes the group access permissions on the jailkit.
Now I just have one more problem. When tomcat creates files in these user directories I need the permissions to be set appropriately. What is the best way to set the umask value when running tomcat using jsvc? > Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:58:11 -0800 > From: rusty.wri...@gmail.com > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Re: running tomcat with root user > > Are you sure about the group write permissions? I glanced at the jailkit web > page and it looks like it's sugar coating and chrome around a chroot. So I > would think that using unix groups would work. And on the flip side, if unix > groups don't work, it seems to me that ACLs wouldn't either. > > > epicwin...@hotmail.com wrote: > > I have the latest tomcat 6 installed under centos 5.2. The problem I am > > having is that it appears that I have to run tomcat as root user, because > > the spring app that tomcat starts needs to write files to other users' home > > directories. The tomcat user doesn't have access to these directories. > > > > I tried making these users part of a shared group, but to complicate the > > problem the users are jailed using jailkit. So it doesn't appear that > > jailkit lets me add group write privileges to the home directories and > > maintain a working jail. > > > > Can anyone suggest another alternative? I am not linux user expert so > > maybe there is an obvious solution i am missing? > > thanks > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Windows Live™ Hotmail®…more than just e-mail. > > http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_012009 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®…more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_012009
