On Sunday 09 March 2003 09:30 am, Jason Lanpher wrote: > Hi everyone, > > What is the best/easiest way to set up services such as tomcat to > run as a different user than root? > > Thanks in advance, Under redhat, if you are starting tomcat via an rc script you can look in /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat. Look for the line that has daemon and add --user tomcat. # Start daemons. echo -n $"Starting tomcat: " daemon <path>/tomcat --user tomcat -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = AB15 0BDF BCDE 4369 5B42 1973 7CF1 A709 2CC1 B288 _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list