jvm permissions question

2001-05-10 Thread Joel Dudley
Hello all, I have a security question for you all. We are going to have some java processes running on our server and, for security reasons, we would prefer that the JVM not run as root. However, due to the nature of our app and infrastructure out app needs to be able to do things as different u

setuid problems

2001-04-11 Thread Joel Dudley
we have a strange problem with a jvm. whe have a jvm as running as userA at the command line userA can execute certain setuid binaries without a problem, however when the JVM runs as userA it cannot execute the binaries and spews out (java.io.IOException cannot execute). why would this be? we eve

permissions

2001-03-13 Thread Joel Dudley
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