Using Port 443 w/ Tomcat

Am 08. Nov, 2002 schw=E4tzte Carl Parrish so:

> When using Apache there is a way to set SSL on port 443 even if apache
> isn't running as root. Does anyone know if there is a way to set this in
> tomcat? I *think* what happens in the apache case is that it starts up as
> root sets the port number then switches the user to nobody (or whatever

That's how apache listens to port 80, well, it binds port 80 as just
setting it doesn't necessarily give you permission to use it :).

> user is set to run apache). I'd *love* to be able to pull the same trick
> off in tomcat.

tomcat certainly can if it can be run that way. If not, setup netfilters to
do port forwarding.

ciao,

der.hans
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