Re: Can not change Tomcat4 to listen to :80
Guy Geens <ggeens@iname.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "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.
Many thanks for the explanation.
-- Arnaud
http://vbstefi60.fapse.ulg.ac.be/
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