I read somewhere that if I want to run Tomcat standalone on port 80, I will
have to run it as root and that this is potentially unsafe. Is there any way
for me to run it on port 80 without having to give the root privileges to
the process.

Thanks,

Gaurav Singh Kushwaha
http://www.chakpak.com

Ph: +91-9880101496
Bangalore, India.