Oh no! You don't want to do that! Then (if there is some vulnerability in Tomcat) a malicious user could do whatever they want to!
Don't do this on a production box!!!!! Don't do this on any box that has any importance at all - ie information you don't want hosed! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ><snip> >Tomcat4 was running well on my Linux PC untl I reinstalled mod_perl and tried to >install Apache. > >Now when I login as su (root) and type the command: >"/etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat4 start" > >I get the message: >"Starting tomcat4: chown: 'tomcat4:tomcat4': invalid user >chown: 'tomcat4:tomcat4': invalid user >chown: 'tomcat4:tomcat4': invalid user >chown: 'tomcat4:tomcat4': invalid user >su: user tomcat4 does not exist" > > >This command has worked fine until I messed with mod_perl. > >Any assistance on how to fix this and get the user tomcat4 back would be greatly >appreciated. > >Please note the file tomcat4 exists in the directory /etc/rc.d/init.d/ > ><snip> > > >In case anyone is interested, I fixed this by editing >etc/tomcat4/conf/tomcat4.conf . In this file, I changed: >TOMCAT_USER="tomcat4" >to >TOMCAT_USER="root" > > > > > > > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
