Hi Chris,


> Am 23.02.2018 um 18:36 schrieb Cheltenham, Chris 
> <ccheltenham-...@philasd.org>:
> 
> Hello All,
>  
> I am trying to run tomcat as a non root user.
>  
> It will start as the tomcat user but it will not bind to connector 443 unless 
> it starts as root.
>  
> Does anyone know why?

Unix will not let you open ports below 1024 as non-root user!

You may use a proxy in front of it or maybe use iptables to be able to use 
standard ports AND user tomcat.

> 23-Feb-2018 09:14:59.140 SEVERE [main] 
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initInternal Failed to initialize 
> connector [Connector[HTTP/1.1-443]]
> org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to initialize component 
> [Connector[HTTP/1.1-443]]
>  
> I’m using java 9.0.4 and Tomcat 8.5.28
>  
>  
> ===========================
> 
> Thank You;
> 
> Chris Cheltenham
> Technology Services
> The School District of Philadelphia
> 
> Work # 215-400-5025
> Cell # 215-301-6571

Best regards

Peter

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