running tomcat as a non-root user?

[waimun <de...@waimun.net>]

Hi,

Has anybody tried running tomcat as a non-root user in Linux? If so, how do you proceed (ie. making script setuid doesn't work for me). Pls advice.

Thanks alot!

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Re: running tomcat as a non-root user?

[Jerry <je...@katzenjammer.us>]

Waimun:

I run Tomcat as non-root.

Apache has to be run as root if you use the default port 80, but Tomcat 
has no such requirement.  

 If you installed Tomcat as root, use chown to change owner for all 
files and subdirectores of your tomcat installation, then you should be 
able to run it as the user that owns the installation.  

Or reinstall into a non-root area.

Jerry

waimun wrote:

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>
>Has anybody tried running tomcat as a non-root user in Linux? If so, how do you proceed (ie. making script setuid doesn't work for me). Pls advice.
>
>Thanks alot!
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RE: running tomcat as a non-root user?

[Mike Millson <mg...@atsga.com>]

I have a howto document in pdf and sxw (Open Office) format that may be of
help.

http://www.atsga.com/docs/

Mike

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Hi,

Has anybody tried running tomcat as a non-root user in Linux? If so, how do
you proceed (ie. making script setuid doesn't work for me). Pls advice.

Thanks alot!

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