Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI
Please respond to Tomcat Users List tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org To Tomcat Users List tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org cc Subject Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat This sounds really fishy. Tomcat does not by default have any connectors configured for port 80. There must be another

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread David Smith
tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org cc Subject Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat This sounds really fishy. Tomcat does not by default have any connectors configured for port 80. There must be another service or you've modified your server.xml somehow. --David Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI wrote

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI
tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org cc Subject Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat But it's also commented out and not active. It's there as an example of a proxied port if you happen to be using Apache and mod_rewrite as a front end to tomcat. --David Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI wrote: Hmmm

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI wrote: Hmmm. Well take a look at this entry from the server.xml file: !-- Define a Proxied HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8082 -- !-- See proxy documentation for more information about using this. -- !-- Connector port=8082 maxThreads=150

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI
Users List tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org cc Subject Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI wrote: Hmmm. Well take a look at this entry from the server.xml file: !-- Define a Proxied HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8082 -- !-- See proxy documentation

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI wrote: Understood. But I do not want to use Tomcat proxying services. I just want to host 8080 locally and let my ipfilter firewall block and proxy for me. Then the default Tomcat configuration of listening on port 8080 is just what you need. I highly recommend

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI
To Tomcat Users List tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org cc Subject Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI wrote: Understood. But I do not want to use Tomcat proxying services. I just want to host 8080 locally and let my ipfilter firewall block and proxy for me

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread David Smith
PROTECTED] 08/15/2005 10:30 AM Please respond to Tomcat Users List tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org To Tomcat Users List tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org cc Subject Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI wrote: Understood. But I do not want to use Tomcat proxying

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-15 Thread Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI
cc Subject Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat Regardless of what you put up in front of tomcat to act as the proxy host, you'll most likely need the proxyPort and proxyName attributes in your connector so tomcat can write urls correctly as needed (like in sending external redirects). I

RE: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread Harrell, Ralph
-Original Message- From: Alon Belman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:20 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat copied share to meb/robo laters! On 8/11/05, LFM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim, Thanks for the reply, but I can't get

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread Paul Singleton
Harrell, Ralph wrote: I would like to be able to start TOMCAT as a non-root user but am unable to as we are running SSL and use port 443 and non-root users do not have the permission to use ports under 1000. ...not in Linux and some (all?) Unix variants, anyway. (FWIW I think this

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI
Alon Belman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat Harrell, Ralph wrote: I would like to be able to start TOMCAT as a non-root user but am unable to as we are running SSL and use port 443 and non-root users do not have the permission to use ports under 1000

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Robert V. Coward/CTR/OSAGWI wrote: Apparently T5 comes with a port 80 proxy server a special servlet container or something. Basically I have ipfilter running and only allow access to port 8080, but if you send a request to 80 tTomcat picks up and does some sort of internal redirect to port

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread David Smith
ports under 1000. Ralph B. Harrell UNC Charlotte Manager, Oracle Database Administration [EMAIL PROTECTED] (704) 687-2951 -Original Message- From: Alon Belman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:20 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Security Questions Regarding

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread David Smith
port 8080 access to the web. Thanks Paul Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/12/2005 10:08 AM Please respond to Tomcat Users List tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org To Tomcat Users List tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org cc Alon Belman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread David Smith
I don't know -- I can see some value to the root only ports below 1024. It prevents non-privileged users from stealing trusted service ports in a mainframe environment -- not that that's a reality anymore. The best way to handle this in a production environment is to use the commons-daemon

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread Leandro Meiners
Tim, list: Where can I find documentation regarding limting HTTP methods using security-constraints? All I was able to do was requiere authentication in order to use some HTTP methods but I would like to limit them like it can be donde with the directive Limit in Apache. I will also appreciate

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-12 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Leandro Meiners wrote: Where can I find documentation regarding limting HTTP methods using security-constraints? The Security section of the Servlet 2.4 Spec (SRV.12) has some good examples -- highly recommended :-) FWIW! -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-11 Thread Tim Funk
The Server header can be configured in the Connector declaration. server='Sun Solaris IIS/6.0' To limit the HTTP methods this can be done a few ways; 1) Use a servlet filter 2) Use web.xml and security constraints on those method types 3) ??? -Tim LFM wrote: Hi! I'm hardening a Web Server

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-11 Thread LFM
Tim, Thanks for the reply, but I can't get in working: In conf/server.xml I added server=TEST, as shown: !-- Define a non-SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8180 -- Connector className=org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector port=8180 minProcessors=5 maxProcessors=75 enableLookups=true

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-11 Thread Alon Belman
copied share to meb/robo laters! On 8/11/05, LFM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim, Thanks for the reply, but I can't get in working: In conf/server.xml I added server=TEST, as shown: !-- Define a non-SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8180 -- Connector

Re: Security Questions Regarding Tomcat

2005-08-11 Thread Tim Funk
Setting the server header is a tomcat 5.5 feature. -Tim LFM wrote: Tim, Thanks for the reply, but I can't get in working: In conf/server.xml I added server=TEST, as shown: !-- Define a non-SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8180 -- Connector

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2002-07-10 Thread AMRAN121
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RE: Security questions

2001-07-30 Thread William Kaufman
What is the default password for the admin context? It's in tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml . where can I find documentation on implementing security with tomcat? Start with the servlet specification at http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/ . You could also look at JDBCRealm (sources and

RE: Security questions

2001-07-30 Thread Dave Finch
Thanks very much. -Original Message- From: William Kaufman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 5:00 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Security questions What is the default password for the admin context? It's in tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml . where can I

RE: Security Questions

2001-05-30 Thread William Kaufman
RequestInterceptorclassName="org.apache.tomcat.request.AccessInterceptor" debug="0" / From that class' javadoc: * Access control - find if a request matches any web-resource-collection* and set the "required" attributes.** The spec requires additive checking ( i.e. there is no "best