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- To enforce running Tomcat only as tomcat user add the following to the top of $CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh after #!/bin/sh
- e.g. vi $CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh
# Detect whether the correct user, tomcat, is running the script
if [ "$(whoami)" != "tomcat" ] ; then
echo ""
echo "Tomcat should ONLY be run by user tomcat !!!!!"
echo "try sudo service tomcat start"
echo ""
exit 1
fi
This will ensure even if someone tries to start Tomcat as a user other than tomcat (e.g. sudo bin/startup.sh) they will receive an error and instructions on how to correctly start the server.
- To enforce running Tomcat only as tomcat user add the following to the top of $CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh after #!/bin/sh
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