Re: Can not change Tomcat4 to listen to :80
>>>>> "Arnaud" == Arnaud Vandyck <arnaud.vandyck@ulg.ac.be> writes:
Arnaud> Thank you, I'll try ipchains, but I didn't know apache was set
Arnaud> root (thought www-data).
Apache starts as root, in order to bind to port 80. It also opens some
log files in /var/log/apache with root privileges IIRC.
This `master' process spawns a number of request handlers which drop
privileges before serving requests.
If you do `ps ax', you can see this: one apache process will have user
`root', while the others are all listed as www-data.
Tomcat cannot use this principle, because a Java program has no way to
change the UID.
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