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It is very likely that you will not want to have the Geronimo server process under the super user root. The following are a series of simple steps for changing the ownership and permissions for the required files in order to run Geronimo with a different user.

The following tasks should be performed while logged as root or a user with enough access rights.

# create a new user (i.e. gmo) and add it to a specific user group. You could use the predefined *www* user group for instance.
# edit the .bashrc for the user you just created and add the PATH and JAVA_HOME variables:
    {{PATH=$PATH:<java_home>/bin

}}
    {{export PATH}}
    {{JAVA_HOME=<java_home>

}}
    {{export JAVA_HOME

}}
# change the user group to all the subdirs in <geronimo_home>

    {{chown -R root:www <geronimo_home>

}}
# create a *deploy* directory within the <geronimo_home> directory structure.

# change the access permissions to the following

 directories
    {{chmod -R 774 <geronimo_home>/bin

}}
    {{chmod -R 774 <geronimo_home>/deploy

}}
    {{chmod -R 774 <geronimo_home>/repository

}}
    {{chmod -R 774 <geronimo_home>/var

}}
# login as the new user (i.e. gmo)

# cd <geronimo_home>/bin

# ./geronimo.sh run

 

You are now able to run and deploy applications with a user other than root.