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
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