> From: raga2 [mailto:ragabo...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: Which user executes JSP in Tomcat? > > ps -aef tells me it's root running tomcat.
That's a really bad thing to do. You should be running Tomcat under a userid that does not give it the privilege to scribble anywhere in the file system. If you need to access ports < 1024, start Tomcat with jsvc, or use iptables to redirect the low ports to what's configured in Tomcat. Back to your original problem: there's no guarantee that a servlet container will allow webapp code to have access to any part of the file system, other than a spec-defined work area. Tomcat usually does allow such access, unless you're running with a security manager. If you're trying to use relative paths in your directory and file creation, then you're likely trying to write within Tomcat's directory structure, which is another Really Bad Thing. Make sure that wherever you're writing is outside of Tomcat. (And if you're using a 3rd-party, repackaged version of Tomcat, it's anybody's guess where all the pieces of Tomcat are, since the repackagers seem to delight in scattering bits of Tomcat all over, and then tying things back together with a mess of symlinks - bloody ridiculous.) - 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 unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
