I guess I'm thinking of an environment where only certain people are allowed to start Tomcat, and also, where Tomcat is seen as a system-level service. Like a web server or cron or sendmail. As opposed to 'my app is servlet-based and I want a single instance of Tomcat to run my app all by itself and do nothing else'. If you have the shrink-wrap situation, where you want your App and Tomcat to come up at the same time, and Tomcat exists *only* to provide a runtime for your app, then embedded is the way to go. But otherwise, just use whatever groups and users authentication your OS uses. If they can login to the Tomcat user, then let them start Tomcat.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark W. Webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:29 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: prompt for password at startup > > > how would this be handled at the OS level? > > Mike Curwen wrote: > > >can that not be handled at an OS level? > > > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Mark W. Webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:23 PM > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: prompt for password at startup > >> > >> > >>Is there an accepted way to prompt for a password upon > >>startup of tomcat? > >> > >>thanks > >> > >> > >> > >>------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]