Bug 91792 - Tomcat cannot listen on low ports
Summary: Tomcat cannot listen on low ports
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: tomcat
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Gary Benson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-05-28 10:38 UTC by Gary Benson
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-06-03 09:10:35 UTC
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Description Gary Benson 2003-05-28 10:38:18 UTC 
Description of problem:
Because tomcat runs as a non-root user it cannot listen on low ports.

Additional info:
It might be possible to do a wrapper which handles the setuid/setgid bit but
retains the capability to bind to low ports.
Comment 1 Gary Benson 2003-06-04 16:10:17 UTC 
tomcat-4.1.24-5 has hooks in daemon.c where capabilities code could be added.
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