Axis runs as root?

[Josh Emmons <je...@capitalprinting.com>]

I have an Axis service that creates a file on the server's file system. 
  When I `ls -l` this file I see that, much to my surprise, it's owned 
by root!  Does axis run as root by default?  How do I change it to run 
as, say, "nobody"?  I looked through $tomcat/conf/server.xml and 
$axis/WEB-INF/server-config.wsdd and didn't see any properties that 
would let me set what user these apps run as.

Ideas, anyone?

Cheers,
-Josh Emmons

Re: Axis (or tomcat?) runs as root? OT

[Dennis Sosnoski <dm...@sosnoski.com>]

Josh Emmons wrote:

>>I would assume that you are getting this behavior because you are 
>>running Tomcat itself as root. Perhaps you are listening on port 80 
>>(which requires you to run as root).
>>    
>>
>
>I thought so too, but for the life of me I can't find where to set the 
>user tomcat runs as (and I'm running on 8080, so I don't need to run as 
>root and would prefer not to).  Does tomcat just run as whoever executes 
>the $tomcat/bin/startup.sh script?  Surely I don't have to su to nobody 
>everytime I want to start or reload tomcat, right?
>
Tomcat does indeed just run as whoever executes the script. If you're 
interested in more information you can see an article I wrote for 
devWorks on Securing Linux for Java services at 
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-secjav.html that 
discusses setting up Tomcat for automatic start, using its own account, 
responding to port 80, and related issues.

  - Dennis

Dennis M. Sosnoski
Enterprise Java, XML, and Web Services Support
http://www.sosnoski.com
Redmond, WA  425.885.7197

RE: Axis (or tomcat?) runs as root? OT

[Samir Shaikh <ss...@worldres.com>]

Tomcat (& Axis) runs as which ever use executes ./startup.sh


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Emmons [mailto:jemmons@capitalprinting.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 3:01 PM
> To: axis-user@ws.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Axis (or tomcat?) runs as root? OT
> 
> 
> > I would assume that you are getting this behavior because you are 
> > running Tomcat itself as root. Perhaps you are listening on port 80 
> > (which requires you to run as root).
> 
> I thought so too, but for the life of me I can't find where 
> to set the 
> user tomcat runs as (and I'm running on 8080, so I don't need 
> to run as 
> root and would prefer not to).  Does tomcat just run as 
> whoever executes 
> the $tomcat/bin/startup.sh script?  Surely I don't have to su 
> to nobody 
> everytime I want to start or reload tomcat, right?
> 
> I'll post to the tomcat list as well, but if you happen to 
> know how to 
> sort this, I'd appreciate the help.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Josh Emmons
> 

Re: Axis (or tomcat?) runs as root? OT

[Josh Emmons <je...@capitalprinting.com>]

> I would assume that you are getting this behavior because you are 
> running Tomcat itself as root. Perhaps you are listening on port 80 
> (which requires you to run as root).

I thought so too, but for the life of me I can't find where to set the 
user tomcat runs as (and I'm running on 8080, so I don't need to run as 
root and would prefer not to).  Does tomcat just run as whoever executes 
the $tomcat/bin/startup.sh script?  Surely I don't have to su to nobody 
everytime I want to start or reload tomcat, right?

I'll post to the tomcat list as well, but if you happen to know how to 
sort this, I'd appreciate the help.

Cheers,
-Josh Emmons

Re: Axis runs as root?

[Whitney Hunter <wh...@hunterfam.com>]

I would assume that you are getting this behavior because you are 
running Tomcat itself as root. Perhaps you are listening on port 80 
(which requires you to run as root).

Whitney

Josh Emmons wrote:

> I have an Axis service that creates a file on the server's file 
> system.  When I `ls -l` this file I see that, much to my surprise, 
> it's owned by root!  Does axis run as root by default?  How do I 
> change it to run as, say, "nobody"?  I looked through 
> $tomcat/conf/server.xml and $axis/WEB-INF/server-config.wsdd and 
> didn't see any properties that would let me set what user these apps 
> run as.
>
> Ideas, anyone?
>
> Cheers,
> -Josh Emmons
>
>