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Re: Tomcat 3.3 / 4.0 ? When?



>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Gybas wrote:
Stefan> Fine, and the Debian package uses the same user as Apache
Stefan> (default: www-data), also for security reasons :)

Adam> I consider that a bug, and should probably file one. tomcat
Adam> should not run as the same user as apache, for security reasons.

It's an option - see /etc/defaults/tomcat

And out of curiosity: how does that count as a security risk?

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