why does derby create databases as root?

[ed...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I've been using derby as a embedded database.
When I used java code from a servlet to create a database, it create
the db with root ownership.
Why is this.
here's a snippet of my code.

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try {
   Properties p = new Properties();
   p.put("derby.system.home", "/myProgs/java/derby10");
   p.put("create", "true");
   Class.forName("org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver");
   Connection con =
DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:derby:/myProgs/java/derby10/lukeDB3",
p);
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Re: why does derby create databases as root?

[Jeremy Boynes <jb...@apache.org>]

edencane@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using derby as a embedded database.
> When I used java code from a servlet to create a database, it create
> the db with root ownership.
> Why is this.
> here's a snippet of my code.
> 

To my knowledge there is no suid functionality in Java so I would 
presume this is because your servlet container is running as root. This 
is generally considered a *bad idea*

--
Jeremy