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RE: OT [was: Re: Starting a different process for each java ope
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Lott, Carey

2004-02-06


Thank for this information.


>This very much depends on the platform tomcat runs on.
>On Linux and most Un*x-like operationg systems, no user except root
>(i.e. anyone with effective uid 0) may open ports below 1024. Hence, on
>these platforms, no other user can start tomcat on port 80, at least not
>without outside help. What native unix-programs (like apache) do is they
>meddle with the uid they are running under by the means of kernel
>function calls, dropping their root-privileges after they open port 80
>and do other privileged stuff.
>
>Since I had no need for this myself, I do not know if there is any
>solution around that allows java programms to effectively do the same.

Does anybody know if there is a solution that allows this?

Carey

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