Tomcat4 restart/stop problem.

Taavi Burns taavi-LbuTpDkqzNzXI80/IeQp7B2eb7JE58TQ at public.gmane.org
Fri Jan 9 05:42:09 UTC 2004


On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:05:02AM -0500, Lance F. Squire wrote:
> Actually, I chgrp everything under bla/../tomcat4. to tomcat4. I thought 
> this would work as I had made the developer part of the tomcat4 grp. But 
> it didn't, so I changed access mode to world read write execute. Not 
> wise, not secure, (My BAD...)but now the developer could access the 
> relative files.

Yikes!  No reason to give a+w!  None whatsoever!  r for files and rx
for directories is more than sufficient (and x on files is probably
not horrible).

chmod -R o-w tomcat4

as a minimum, if not go-w, before you get rooted.  ;)

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