Thanks. I assume there is no workaround, then. So I must disable the
restriction (on rh7). Would you happen to know how? The security
implications of that don't apply to my case.
Else I'll have to run apache, too, just to get the listening port on
80.
Wednesday, June 27, 2001, 12:28:17 PM, you wrote:
TON> At 08:23 AM 6/27/2001, you wrote:
>>Can I run Tomcat as standalone on port 80, as a user instead of as
>>root? Thanks.
TON> No, regular users aren't supposed to have access to any
TON> ports below 1024 on a unix machine. Which is posix standard.
TON> Before you mention it apache (and netscape and etc) can do it
TON> because they run a native administrative process that runs
TON> under root.