Running Jboss/Tomcat as a non-root User on Port 80

[rpeiper]

I am sure I am missing something simple. I cannot bind to port 80 as the Jboss user since that user is unpriveleged. When I try I get this exception:

java.net.BindException: Permission denied:80

How do I go about starting Jboss on Port 80 without using a priveleged user?

Thanks,
Richard

[milowe]

Privileged ports are restricted to privileged users, makes some sense :)
If you really want it to run @ port 80 you need to start service as user with proper rights.
This is not a good option for security reasons.
You are better off using NAT in your router/firewall to map incoming request @ port 80 to your custom port defined in jboss-service.xml in the web sar.

/micke