Hi there! In order to resolve an issue with a Tomcat web app, I’m trying to run Tomcat as a user other than the default user. Following other advice, I looked in the conf file (/etc/tomcat/tomcat.conf) for TOMCAT_USER and saw that it wasn’t set; however, my efforts to set it haven’t seemed to result in any change.
I wrote: TOMCAT_USER=“myusername” which is the same syntax as the other variables in the file, JAVA_HOME and so on. (Incidentally, these don’t echo in the command line, but Tomcat does seem to be running.) I then restarted, but a look at the process list showed that it was still running as default user “tomcat” rather than as myusername. What am I missing and how can I run Tomcat as another user? Thanks!
