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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Oki DZ <ok...@bdg.pindad.com> on 2001/05/12 08:42:06 UTC

Tomcat & not root

Hi,

Tomcat runs on port 8080 (well, set up to be so). Would there be any
problem if its started by a user other than root?

TIA,
Oki

Re: Tomcat & not root

Posted by "Ansgar W. Konermann" <an...@inf.tu-dresden.de>.

Oki DZ wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Tomcat runs on port 8080 (well, set up to be so). Would there be any
> problem if its started by a user other than root?

It works fine for me, I'm using su -c '<startup-command>' in 
the startup scripts of my linux box.

WRT security, I prefer running most server software as non-root.

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Best regards,

Ansgar W. Konermann
eMail: ak26@inf.tu-dresden.de

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