On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 06/05/2011 08:41, Mikolaj Rydzewski wrote: >> On Fri, 6 May 2011 02:35:17 +0200, Jakub Królikowski wrote: >> >>>> My $0.02: do not run tomcat as root. >>> >>> Why? >> >> For security purposes. One should run processes/services with lowest >> privileges possible. > > +1 > >> Is there any reason you have to run it as root? If so, implement a >> lightweight daemon that will run with root priviliges and run tomcat as >> a normal user. > > That would be jsvc, part of the commons daemon project.
Well, ok, I will consider this. But can running Tomcat on root influence somehow performance? > > Mark > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
