Re: Error starting HTTP-Server: Permission denied
Adam, See http://www.orionsupport.com/?key=users on how to set this up. I had to recompile the .so file for my environment. Note that the (re)deployment occurs before the server is bound to the port, so that certain files are still owned by root which can create problems downstream. After the port is bound, then the hand off is made to the "native user". Hope this helps, Earl At 09:48 8/2/00 +1000, Adam Cassar wrote: Is there any way to get Orion to drop root privilages after binding to the port? On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 05:39:18PM +0200, Mattias Arbin wrote: Mattias Arbin wrote: I am trying to setup a linux user (Red Hat 6.2) to run orion. When starting Orion I get the error: Error starting HTTP-Server: Permission denied Orion/1.1.37 initialized Nothing in the logs. Any ideas? /Mattias Hi Mattias, Normally, that happens when you're trying to launch orion without root privileges. Ports below 1024 are reserved and can only be bound by root-owned programs. There are several solutions, but the easiest is to choose: 1 - You want Orion to listen to port 80 (the standard http port) and so you must launch it on a root prompt 2 - You don't mind if Orion does not listen to other port (say, for instance, 8080), but you want to launch it from an ordinary user account. In this case, you must edit the orion_path/config/default-web-site.xml and on the web-site ... tag, change the port from port="80" to port="8080". In theory either one of these solutions, will make the permission denied error go away Best Regards, Fábio Thanks. That explains the error. However, my problem was not that I could't start Orion. I have run it as root until now. I just thought that it might be good, for security reasons, to create a user with less priviliges than root, to run Orion. /Thanks, Mattias -- Adam Cassar Senior Web Developer ___ NetRegistry http://www.netregistry.au.com Tel: +61 2 9699 6099 | Fax: +61 2 9699 6088 PO Box 270 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia Earl Marwil SCIENTECH, Inc. 1690 International Way Idaho Falls, ID 83402 208.525.3717
Re: Error starting HTTP-Server: Permission denied
Thanks for the link Earl. I recompiled the library and copied libNativeSupport.so to /usr/local/orion/liborion.so I then started the server with java -Dnative.user=orion -Djava.library.path=. -jar orion.jar -console2 I receive the following on the output - however the console doesn't start up :( Setting native user to orion... done. Orion/1.1.24 initialized The server starts up, a "ps aux | grep orion" reveals that the server is still running as root. Is this because: (1) I am running Orion/1.1.24 or (2) When a new thread is spawned the server then changes the owner ?? Thanks for the help. On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 08:01:40AM -0600, Earl Marwil wrote: Adam, See http://www.orionsupport.com/?key=users on how to set this up. I had to recompile the .so file for my environment. Note that the (re)deployment occurs before the server is bound to the port, so that certain files are still owned by root which can create problems downstream. After the port is bound, then the hand off is made to the "native user". Hope this helps, Earl At 09:48 8/2/00 +1000, Adam Cassar wrote: Is there any way to get Orion to drop root privilages after binding to the port? On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 05:39:18PM +0200, Mattias Arbin wrote: Mattias Arbin wrote: I am trying to setup a linux user (Red Hat 6.2) to run orion. When starting Orion I get the error: Error starting HTTP-Server: Permission denied Orion/1.1.37 initialized Nothing in the logs. Any ideas? /Mattias Hi Mattias, Normally, that happens when you're trying to launch orion without root privileges. Ports below 1024 are reserved and can only be bound by root-owned programs. There are several solutions, but the easiest is to choose: 1 - You want Orion to listen to port 80 (the standard http port) and so you must launch it on a root prompt 2 - You don't mind if Orion does not listen to other port (say, for instance, 8080), but you want to launch it from an ordinary user account. In this case, you must edit the orion_path/config/default-web-site.xml and on the web-site ... tag, change the port from port="80" to port="8080". In theory either one of these solutions, will make the permission denied error go away Best Regards, Fábio Thanks. That explains the error. However, my problem was not that I could't start Orion. I have run it as root until now. I just thought that it might be good, for security reasons, to create a user with less priviliges than root, to run Orion. /Thanks, Mattias -- Adam Cassar Senior Web Developer ___ NetRegistry http://www.netregistry.au.com Tel: +61 2 9699 6099 | Fax: +61 2 9699 6088 PO Box 270 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia Earl Marwil SCIENTECH, Inc. 1690 International Way Idaho Falls, ID 83402 208.525.3717 -- Adam Cassar Senior Web Developer ___ NetRegistry http://www.netregistry.au.com Tel: +61 2 9699 6099 | Fax: +61 2 9699 6088 PO Box 270 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia
Re: Error starting HTTP-Server: Permission denied
Mattias Arbin wrote: I am trying to setup a linux user (Red Hat 6.2) to run orion. When starting Orion I get the error: Error starting HTTP-Server: Permission denied Orion/1.1.37 initialized Nothing in the logs. Any ideas? /Mattias Hi Mattias, Normally, that happens when you're trying to launch orion without root privileges. Ports below 1024 are reserved and can only be bound by root-owned programs. There are several solutions, but the easiest is to choose: 1 - You want Orion to listen to port 80 (the standard http port) and so you must launch it on a root prompt 2 - You don't mind if Orion does not listen to other port (say, for instance, 8080), but you want to launch it from an ordinary user account. In this case, you must edit the orion_path/config/default-web-site.xml and on the web-site ... tag, change the port from port="80" to port="8080". In theory either one of these solutions, will make the permission denied error go away Best Regards, Fábio
Re: Error starting HTTP-Server: Permission denied
Mattias Arbin wrote: I am trying to setup a linux user (Red Hat 6.2) to run orion. When starting Orion I get the error: Error starting HTTP-Server: Permission denied Orion/1.1.37 initialized Nothing in the logs. Any ideas? /Mattias Hi Mattias, Normally, that happens when you're trying to launch orion without root privileges. Ports below 1024 are reserved and can only be bound by root-owned programs. There are several solutions, but the easiest is to choose: 1 - You want Orion to listen to port 80 (the standard http port) and so you must launch it on a root prompt 2 - You don't mind if Orion does not listen to other port (say, for instance, 8080), but you want to launch it from an ordinary user account. In this case, you must edit the orion_path/config/default-web-site.xml and on the web-site ... tag, change the port from port="80" to port="8080". In theory either one of these solutions, will make the permission denied error go away Best Regards, Fábio Thanks. That explains the error. However, my problem was not that I could't start Orion. I have run it as root until now. I just thought that it might be good, for security reasons, to create a user with less priviliges than root, to run Orion. /Thanks, Mattias
