Running Tomcat as non root.

[md1750]

Is there is any way to configure tomcat to run as non-root?.

 

[sedj]

if it is a permissions thing, just "chmod -R 777 $TOMCAT_HOME"

and then just run it as some other user ...

Bear in mind that if you are starting tomcat on port 80, then only root user can bind to that port.

 

[md1750]

Is there a way to workaround it like in the case of apache where is start as root but runs as nobody.

 

[sedj]

work around what ? You don't need to start tomcat as root unless you start it on port 80 ...

 

[milkchaser]

Check out the jakarta commons-daemon (jsvc) which is supposed to let you start as root and switch to another user.

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/setup.html

 

[milkchaser]

Here are a couple of alternative solutions using iptables and rinetd (under Linux, anyway).

http://linux.org.mt/article/tomcat-ports