Security question about Multiple instances of Tomcat running as non-admin users on a single box

2011-01-21 Thread Guy Pontecorvo
We currently run multiple instances of tomcat Version 6.0.20, each in its own non-admin user account under Mac OSX 10.5. This has been a great way to host multiple web applications (student information systems) on a single box. Each app is secure in its own user account space and can't read or wri

RE: Security question about Multiple instances of Tomcat running as non-admin users on a single box

2011-01-21 Thread Jeffrey Janner
o use it the way you do now. It's called a pilot program. Jeff > -Original Message- > From: Guy Pontecorvo [mailto:guy.ponteco...@pearson.com] > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 11:56 AM > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Security question about Multiple instanc

Re: Security question about Multiple instances of Tomcat running as non-admin users on a single box

2011-01-22 Thread Brett Delle Grazie
a pilot program. > > Jeff > >> -Original Message- >> From: Guy Pontecorvo [mailto:guy.ponteco...@pearson.com] >> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 11:56 AM >> To: users@tomcat.apache.org >> Subject: Security question about Multiple instances of Tomcat running &

Re: Security question about Multiple instances of Tomcat running as non-admin users on a single box

2011-01-22 Thread Michael Ludwig
Guy Pontecorvo schrieb am 21.01.2011 um 09:56 (-0800): > > We currently run multiple instances of tomcat Version 6.0.20, each in > its own non-admin user account under Mac OSX 10.5. This has been a > great way to host multiple web applications (student information > systems) on a single box. Each

Re: Security question about Multiple instances of Tomcat running as non-admin users on a single box

2011-01-22 Thread Pid
On 1/21/11 5:56 PM, Guy Pontecorvo wrote: > Because Xserve is being discontinued we are considering the possibility of > migrating our environment to Windows 2008 R2 The JDK tools have a few more small functions on *nix than Windows - small but rather useful. This IMHO, is one key reason to stick

Re: Security question about Multiple instances of Tomcat running as non-admin users on a single box

2011-01-25 Thread Guy Pontecorvo
it the way you do now. >>  It's called a pilot program. >> >> Jeff >> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Guy Pontecorvo [mailto:guy.ponteco...@pearson.com] >>> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 11:56 AM >>> To: users@tomcat.a

Re: Security question about Multiple instances of Tomcat running as non-admin users on a single box

2011-01-25 Thread Brett Delle Grazie
Hi, On 25 January 2011 18:00, Guy Pontecorvo wrote: > > We run as many as 15 apps on a single xServe box. The corresponding Oracle > 10g databases run on a separate server. Everything is automated. Start up, > shutdown, updates etc. are scripted and executed using sudo. Each app runs > as a non-a