Re: Server Security

2007-07-26 Thread Craig Skinner
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 01:37:03PM -0400, Len Popp wrote: Yes, you can run Tomcat on port 80. Some OS's (Linux, UNIX) require the process to have root privs to use port 80. Why not run it on 8080 as the _tomcat user, and use the packet filter to redirect the incoming port 80 traffic to port

Re: Tomcat 5 and 6 Security advise

2007-07-26 Thread Craig Skinner
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 10:51:01AM +0300, Peter Stavrinides wrote: Hi all, I need some advice with regards to Tomcat security, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tomcat/chapter/ch06.pdf - To start a new topic, e-mail:

Re: Tomcat 5 and 6 Security advise

2007-07-26 Thread Craig Skinner
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 03:24:28PM +0300, Peter Stavrinides wrote: It makes for interesting reading, however it was written for Tomcat 4... how current is it?? and nothing is mentioned about the benefits of running Apache with Tomcat for securing Tomcat in a purely Java environment, please

tomcat-4.1 kaffe; IllegalArgumentException: Attribute must be readable or writable

2007-07-25 Thread Craig Skinner
/bootstrap.jar -Dcatalina.base=/var/tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.31 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tomcat/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start TIA for any pointers, -- Craig Skinner | http://www.kepax.co.uk | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: tomcat-4.1 kaffe; IllegalArgumentException: Attribute must be readable or writable

2007-07-25 Thread Craig Skinner
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:06:39AM -0500, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Craig Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tomcat-4.1 kaffe; IllegalArgumentException: Attribute must be readable or writable I have a bog standard tomcat-4.1 kaffe install on OpenBSD 4.0 i386. What

Re: tomcat-4.1 kaffe; IllegalArgumentException: Attribute must be readable or writable

2007-07-25 Thread Craig Skinner
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:37:21AM -0500, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: Not an option: Sun does not release a JKD for BSD. If you can upgrade to Tomcat 5.5, you only need a JRE, not a JDK, Oh? That's a new one on me. I thought that JSP's are complied at run time. I have jikes installed. and

Re: tomcat-4.1 kaffe; IllegalArgumentException: Attribute must be readable or writable

2007-07-25 Thread Craig Skinner
on Debian, so I'm not convinced that there is a problem with the apps, just in the config of them. Unless there are no other takers, thanks for the help. -- Craig Skinner | http://www.kepax.co.uk | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To start