running Tomcat as different user

["Gurganus, Brant L" <gu...@rose-hulman.edu>]

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I am running Tomcat on Windows XP SP2 as a service. I would like to run
Tomcat as a different user that Local System since Local System is rather
over-privileged. I ran tomcat5w and set the user to a newly create user
"tomcat" with, let's say, "tomcat password" as password. I then stopped and
restarted Tomcat, but it still ran as Local System. I noticed that the
actual service was set to run as Local System, so I tried changing it to use
the "tomcat" account also. Doing so adds the Login as Service privilege to
the user. I then started it, and it appeared to start, however, when I go to
a page on the Tomcat server, nothing ever loads.

 

Does anybody know what privileges or ACLs are needed to allow the service to
run as non-Local System?