Tomcat is a process that runs as a user. Mid-tier is just a bunch of files that tomcat serves up. Not sure how to run a bunch of files as a user... It's akin to saying, I have a web server and I want to run my html pages as a different user.
You can change the owner of the files that are the mid-tier, but if you change them in a way that the user that tomcat runs as can not update them, you will lock yourself out of making mid-tier configuration changes through /app/share/config/config.jsp. The closest you can get to running it as another user is running a separate instance of Tomcat altogether; one that is only used for the mid-tier. Axton Grams On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Rabi Tripathi <ars_l...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Axton, > I'm working in a very restricted environment with no root access and no > ability to become the user tomcat runs as. > > So, I am planning to deploy midtier as a service a/c I have access to, > which is different from the a/c tomcat runs as, and then have the right > people modify files beyond midtier install directory. > > It's not very clear from the documentation what those updates are that need > to be made to non-midtier areas in the system. I know about httpd.conf. They > don't tell you how to update this file, but based on the unsintall part of > the guide, I have a paragraph I am planning to have added to it. > > Besides, as you mentioned, I need to worry about my use of service a/c and > whether tomcat will have any issue with it. > > I can ask to have midtier be deployed as the user tomcat runs as, but > unless there is no other way, I don't want to go there. > > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Axton <axton.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ** Only caveats are the native libraries used by the Remedy Java api. > These will need to be in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH when tomcat is started. > > Deploying the mid-tier is just like deploying any other j2ee > war/ear/directory/application. > > Mid-Tier will run as the user that Tomcat runs as. For this reason, the > files deployed with the application should be owned by that user so that the > mid-tier config page can update the config.properties located in the > WEB-INF/classes directory. Not sure what you mean by 'mid-tier will be > installed as yet another non-root user.' > > Axton Grams > > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Rabi Tripathi <ars_l...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > I have Apache/Tomcat 2.2.8 in solaris already installed by sys > admins. I'm trying to install Midtier 7.1 on top of it. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > Platinum > Sponsor:rmisoluti...@verizon.net<sponsor%3armisoluti...@verizon.net>ARSlist: > "Where the Answers Are" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
