I know why Java can't do this inherently. I was hoping for some sort of tricky wrapper in the j-t-s code.
Lots of security reasons to *not* change to a non-root user? You're saying it's more secure to run Tomcat as root? I would think it would be the other way around. Can you elaborate? Thanks, --jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Layman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 3:54 AM Subject: RE: Does jakarta-tomcat-service work for *nixes? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jeff Kilbride [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 2:41 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Does jakarta-tomcat-service work for *nixes? > > > > > > I went through the archives trying to figure out how to run > > Tomcat (4.0.1) > > as a non-root user on port 80. I found references to the > > jakarta-tomcat-service module in the CVS, so I logged in and > > downloaded it. > > Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much info on how to > > set it up -- at > > least, not for a Linux/Unix environment. > > > > Does jakarta-tomcat-service work for Linux? It looks like it > > may only work > > for WinNT. If it doesn't work for Linux, is there any other method for > > starting Tomcat non-root on port 80? > > No it doesn't work for Linux. And no, there is no way for Tomcat to run as > a non-root user on port 80 - because Tomcat is written in Java and Java > doesn't provide the setUID/setGID system calls there is no way to capture > port 80 as root and then change the user to something else (which is how the > other major servers do it - C/C++ provides access to the system call). By > the way there are lots of security reasons to not do this. > > Randy > > > > > Thanks, > > --jeff > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
