Tomcat locked down

[Panagiotis Astithas]

Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
> O Bryan Maynard έγραψε στις Jul 13, 2005 :
> 
> 
>>I know this is a simple thing. . . ;-)
>>
>>I installed Tomcat 5.0.30 from the ports and just entered: make install clean.
>>
>>Tomcat seems to run fine, but i can't do anything with it! My user account 
>>"Bryan", but Tomcat runs under user "www" so I have to either go to a 
>>terminal or log into KDE as root to do anything with Tomcat. Aside from being 
>>annoying, the problem with this is that I've also installed sysdeo tomcat 
>>plugin for eclipse. When I am logged in a root, I can start, stop, and 
>>restart Tomcat just fine. But when I'm logged in as Bryan no such luck. I've 
>>tried running Eclipse under "root", but I get an su error when I try that.
> 
> 
> /etc/rc.d, /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ tasks are not to be stopped and started
> by anyone. Only root can do this.
> 
> 
>>I also cannot drop webapps nto the webapps forder. This is a problem because I 
>>am using Apache Axis and need to put Axis' stuff (jars and such) in the 
>>webapps folder. I can't keep switching back and forth between root and Bryan, 
>>and certainly can't do all my dev work as root!
>>
>>I know there's a simple solution to all this, I just don't know what it is! 
>>Thanks for all your help. . .
>>
>>Bryan
>>
> 
> 
> IMO, just try to get a little more familiar with the whole system,
> and i am sure you will find all the solutions you need.
> 
> In KDE one good way of organizing your workstation is
> configuring 2,3,4,etc... virtual desktops.
> Then name each desktop after a name that describes
> the work done in it.
> 
> So you could have an admin virtual desktop (with all xterms as root),
> a development desktop (with terms as bryan), an internet desktop
> (kmail, mozilla,etc...), and so forth.
> 
> Once you get used to it you will find it very handy.
> <ctrl><TAB> switches between them.
> 

What I usually do on my development workstations is to chown -R the 
tomcat/jboss/eclipse/etc. directories to my own userid. I do appreciate 
the default userid/permissions on server installations, however.

Cheers,

Panagiotis