Re: Run TomCat on port 80?

Owen Jacobson wrote:
Since Java provides no mechanism for altering the OS user the JVM is
running as, running Tomcat on port 80 involves allowing Tomcat to run
as root. Apache gets around this by binding to 80 as root and then
dropping to a non-privileged account based on the contents of
httpd.conf.

Not all OS's have "root" and not all OS's have the <port 1024 rule.

Arne
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