Package: tomcat8 Version: 8.5.14-1+deb9u2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
My call to the 'tomcat8' you is to change the ownership of directory /var/lib/tomcat8 from 'root:root' to 'tomcat8:tomcat8'. I have a tomcat8 installed in Debian-based OS through aptitude. The $HOME of user tomcat8, according to /etc/passwd, is /var/lib/tomcat8. the default $CATALINA_BASE, described by /etc/init.d/tomcat8, is also /var/lib/tomcat8. For what the ownership of directory /var/lib/tomcat8 had been set to 'root:root'? that means I cannot mkdir under neither $HOME nor $CATALINA_BASE. Software packages to OS is what web apps to Tomcat, a software package can mkdir under user's home dir, but a web app cannot mkdir under tomcat user's home dir due to lacking of permission, such that a webapp developer cannot find a proper location to put their generated data. -- System Information: Distributor ID: Raspbian Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 9.1 (stretch) Release: 9.1 Codename: stretch Architecture: armv7l Kernel: Linux 4.9.41-v7+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages tomcat8 depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61 ii lsb-base 9.20161125+rpi1 ii tomcat8-common 8.5.14-1+deb9u2 ii ucf 3.0036 Versions of packages tomcat8 recommends: ii authbind 2.1.2 ii libtcnative-1 1.2.12-2 Versions of packages tomcat8 suggests: ii tomcat8-admin 8.5.14-1+deb9u2 pn tomcat8-docs <none> pn tomcat8-examples <none> pn tomcat8-user <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/tomcat8/catalina.properties changed [not included] /etc/tomcat8/logging.properties changed [not included] /etc/tomcat8/server.xml changed [not included] /etc/tomcat8/tomcat-users.xml changed [not included] /etc/tomcat8/web.xml changed [not included] -- debconf information: tomcat8/groupname: tomcat8 tomcat8/username: tomcat8 tomcat8/javaopts: -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
