Hello
I have an installation of tomcat version 5.0.28 where tomcat runs under a user
tomact on LINUX.
My jsp application should read files from a directory. Read access to directory
and files is limited to group "sdf" and file owner "asd":
drwxrws--- 17 asd sdf data that
contains the file
-rwxrwx--- asd sdf input.txt
The directory is owned by a different user than tomcat. However, user tomcat is
a member of the group ("sdf" in the example) that owns the target directory. At
LINUX level as user tomcat I have access to the file. For security reasons I
cannot give read access to everybody.
With this set up of user rights my application cannot access the file. If I
create a group "tomcat" and if I change owner and/or group of the directory and
file to tomcat then the read access works.
Is this an error in my jsp application or could I configure tomcat that it
would also read files without being the owner of files or the group?
Thank you very much for your help
Ekkehard
