What operating system?
On Solaris you can use the usermod command to "uplevel" a user's
priveleges in a granular fashion. For listening to ports under 1024,
add the net_privaddr privilege to the user the appserver is running as.
The OpenDS project as a good writeup on this for directory server.
https://www.opends.org/wiki//page/RunningTheServerAsANonRootUser
Me-thinks we should update our FAQ in a similar manner:
http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=FaqRunAsNonRootUser
On Oct 12, 2007, at 4:17 PM, glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to install GlassFish as a production server (I'm
> currently just running Tomcat) and I want to be able to listen on
> port 80 & 443 and I do not want to run GlassFish as root. The
> problem is that ports below 1024 are all privileged which means
> root only. I am familiar with using jsvc with Tomcat to get around
> the root requirement. Is there any sort of solution with GlassFish?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
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