I want to start 'Tomcat' at boot time with a username of tomcat and not
root. How can I do this? I was thinking of doing it via ssh

ssh tomcat@locahost:/uss/local ..../startup.sh

with password less public-key/private-key

but there must be a more sensible way.
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On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 13:16:03 +0000, Dave wrote:

> I want to start 'Tomcat' at boot time with a username of tomcat and not
> root. How can I do this? I was thinking of doing it via ssh
>
> ssh tomcat@locahost:/uss/local ..../startup.sh
>
> with password less public-key/private-key
>
> but there must be a more sensible way.

If you download the Tomcat5 package from blastwave.org, its
/etc/init.d/cswtomcat5 script will illustrate how to run tomcat as a
dedicated user.

In short, it involves things like
....
case $1 in
'start')
/bin/su $TOMCAT_USER -c $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
;;
....
and
# TOMCAT_USER
#
# TOMCAT_USER variable defines the Solaris user running the
# tomcat server. You can supered the default valude in the
# tomcat5 configuration file. The value of this variable must
# be a valid Solaris user (ie: root, nobody). The default value
# is root.
#
# WARNING : By default the directory permissions are set for
# the root user (no write access for 'nobody').
# The logs are stored in /opt/csw/share/tomcat5/logs, and do belong
# to root user. If you change the TOMCAT_USER, be sure that this
# user can write in the log directory.
#
# The following permissions may also have to be changed :
# . give read access to the conf directory and all its subdirs
# . give write access to the conf dir to let tomcat create new files
# . give write access to the work dir
#