Alan, this is very useful, thank you. After a bit of Googling I decided to upgrade to Tomcat6 (apparently is has less security ussies with Ubuntu). This means that the files/dirs are now created (from the tomcat app) by 'root:root' (with the same permissions described in my first post).
However, I still have the same problem. I'm running a java progam (not as 'root'), and need write access to these files. And I'm not allowed to run my java app as 'root'. I'm pretty new to linux, so your help (i.e. command examples) is much appreciated. Daniel Alan Chaney wrote: > > This is really a linux permissions issue. > > How are you starting tomcat? with the $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh or > with jsvc or are you using an ubuntu startup script? > > You don't say anything about the user who will run the java application. > > Generally, the way to control the access permissions with which files > are created in linux is to call 'umask' with the correct parameters. As > mentioned before on this list umask is a shell command, so you must do > it at the correct point or severely weaken the overall security of your > installation. > > You need to do the following: > > 1. decide which user or users will be executing tomcat and the java > application. > 2. If you decide that you need to have two separate users, then make > them both in the same group. > 3. Use umask in the tomcat startup script and/or the shell in which you > run your application to set appropriate access permissions - GIYF > > As an aside, if you are going to have two different processes writing > these shared files you may also have to consider locking issues - maybe > you have already done this. > > Regards > > Alan Chaney > > > > > > > Daniel J Hulme wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm running a WebService using Tomcat 5.5 on Ubuntu 7.10 with Axis2. >> >> Files (and directories) are created by this service on a local directory: >> >> /myfiles/ >> >> The permission of the new directories and files in this directory are: >> >> Directories: 'drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat55 nogroup 4096' >> Files: '-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat55 nogroup 10041' >> >> The problem is, is I want to access (write) these files using, say, a >> java >> application, it give me: >> >> java.io.FileNotFoundException: /myfiles/aDir/aFile.txt (Permission >> denied) >> >> How can I either: >> >> 1.Gain write access to these files (without having to constantly change >> the >> permissions in the command prompt, and without running my java >> application >> with 'root' access). >> >> 2.Create the files/dirs from tomcat with 'write access' >> >> 3.Other.... >> >> Thanking you in advance. >> >> Daniel >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Permissions-of-File-Created-by-Tomcat-tp16792720p16795633.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
