I think there is a better solution than using ipchains (which I'm not
sure is supported anywhere but on Linux, and is bound to incurr some
overhead, though I'm not sure if it would be significant), or at least
an alternative.
Install sudo if you haven't already. You have to configure sudo with
the names/groups of users and their permissions. What sudo does is
allow non-root users to execute super user commands and temporarily
attain super user privileges for the purpose of executing commands. You
can have users enter a password to use sudo, or you can configure sudo
to allow users/groups to use it without a password. In any case, make
sure the actual root password and the sudo password are different, that
way no one needs to know the root password except root. To use sudo,
once installed, you just prefix sudo to any command in order to use it:
sudo reboot
sudo java -jar orion.jar
etc.
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/
On 07 Jan 2001 16:54:01 +0800, Heng Chee, Lee - SG wrote:
> Hi,
> I used to run orion on NT machine and now I have to deploy it on a Sun Sparc
> Solaris machine.
> Honestly, my knowledge on unix system admin is very limited.
> Ok, now I have this problem:
> I have untar the orion archieve to a folder called orion, this folder and
> all the files and subfolders under it are belongs to a user name 'orion',
> the group access permission for this folder (and all it's files) are also
> called 'orion'. When I log in to unix as user 'orion' and try to start up
> the app server by typing java -jar orion.jar, I get a message "Error
> starting HTTP-Server : Permission denied". I can only startup orion if I
> log in as root user. This is not acceptable because I can't let everyone to
> have root access just for starting up the orion server.(Our project still in
> the development phase so we need to start and stop the server quite often)
>
> I am puzzle with this error because I have already set the owner of all the
> files under orion folder to be 'orion', and orion app server is using it's
> own http-server internally so it shouldn't has any permission problem.
> I think that orion app server might try to access some of the unix system
> file which must have root access, if this is the case can someone tell me
> which file it it?
> Or is there any alternative work around for this problem?
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> Thanks and best regards
> Lee
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Scott Stirling
West Newton, MA
