Re: Starting tomcat with a different user

[Pascal Forget <to...@ubeans.com>]

Nelson Yip wrote:

>Hi,
> 
>I finally installed tomcat but I want to start up tomcat with a
>different user and not root.
>I created a user called tomcat and I want this user to startup tomcat
>automatically.  What is the best way to do it?
>

Have Apache run on port 80 and have it delegate requests for JSP pages 
and Servlets to
your Tomcat instance which has an AJP13 or Warp connector listening on a 
port higher
than 1024.  Since Tomcat will nto be listening on a port numbered 1024 
or less, it can
be run by a non-root user.

Pascal




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