Re: Run tomcat as root ?

[Tim O'Neil]

At 03:04 PM 7/20/2001, you wrote:
>Currently we are running Tomcat as root on a  linux machine , are there any
>know security risks by doing so? SHould i rather run tomcat as another,
>restricted user ?

If you want to run tomcat on a port below 1024 you
have no choice.