Howdy,
>>This very much depends on the platform tomcat runs on.
>>On Linux and most Un*x-like operationg systems, no user except root
>>(i.e. anyone with effective uid 0) may open ports below 1024. Hence,
on
>>these platforms, no other user can start tomcat on port 80, at least
not
>>without outs
Hi!
Shapira, Yoav wrote:
Can you clarify something for me? You are referring to tomcat starting
child processes and not changing the uid, correct?
I don't understand what you're asking.
I am not entirely sure, either, but I think you two are talking
cross-purposes. If I am not mistaken, the OP w
Hi!
Werner van Mook wrote:
Can I continue on this which is OT?
Which standard users can start tomcat on port 80?
except for root?
This very much depends on the platform tomcat runs on.
On Linux and most Un*x-like operationg systems, no user except root
(i.e. anyone with effective uid 0) may open
Howdy,
>Which standard users can start tomcat on port 80?
>except for root?
Any user you want, by using the commons-daemon implementation that comes
with tomcat 5 (and can work with tomcat 4 as well).
Yoav Shapira
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Hi,
Another question - Can tomcat be run as another user other then root
like
httpd is?
Yes, tomcat can be run as any user you want.
Can I continue on this which is OT?
Which standard users can start tomcat on port 80?
except for root?
Regards
Werner
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Howdy
>Can you clarify something for me? You are referring to tomcat starting
>child processes and not changing the uid, correct?
I don't understand what you're asking.
>Another question - Can tomcat be run as another user other then root
like
>httpd is?
Yes, tomcat can be run as any user you
nt: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:02 AM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: RE: Starting a different process for each java operation
Howdy,
>A developer has a servlet that needs to change the uid for the process
that
>runs it to do some shared memory operations. Right now when this
servlet
>ru
Howdy,
>A developer has a servlet that needs to change the uid for the process
that
>runs it to do some shared memory operations. Right now when this
servlet
>runs it is changing the uid of the root process for Tomcat which causes
>other servlets to stop working. This is bad.
>Is this something
