I was trying to install tomcat 7 on Wheezy
Looking at several guides, I noticed that almost all of them suggest to create a dedicated user.. why?
I am also asking that because I have installed tomcat 7 through the repository and I looked that I have already a user suitable for that, I guess maybe the tomcat installation itself created it
cat /etc/passwd
tomcat7:x:103:106::/usr/share/tomcat7:/bin/false
So my question is, do I need to create an (additional) user for my tomcat?
root@j51391:~# /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/version.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/share/tomcat7
Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/share/tomcat7
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat7/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle
Using CLASSPATH: /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat7/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Server version: Apache Tomcat/7.0.28
Server built: Dec 8 2012 06:51:43
Server number: 7.0.28.0
OS Name: Linux
OS Version: 3.10.13-x86_64-jb1
Architecture: amd64
JVM Version: 1.7.0_45-b18
JVM Vendor: Oracle Corporation