Bug#576875: tomcat6: Allow running the init script as a normal user, not admin

2016-11-17 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 21/07/2016 à 13:52, Emmanuel Bourg a écrit : > I don't think any user can start Tomcat, because the init script has to > switch to the tomcat user at some point and this requires root privileges. The init.d script also generates the catalina.policy file as read-only for the tomcat user, and

Bug#576875: tomcat6: Allow running the init script as a normal user, not admin

2016-07-21 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
I don't think any user can start Tomcat, because the init script has to switch to the tomcat user at some point and this requires root privileges. That said the 'status' option should be usable by anyone. Currently it's restricted to the administrator. Should the tomcat user be allowed to

Bug#576875: tomcat6: Allow running the init script as a normal user, not admin

2010-04-07 Thread Ludovic Claude
Package: tomcat6 Version: 6.0.26-0ubuntu1~ppa1 Severity: wishlist From Jason Brittain (MuleSource): When the init script invoked Tomcat via jsvc, it had to be run by an administrator user because jsvc itself had to be started as root in order to allow binding to privileged ports. Now