THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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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:
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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
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export PATHJAVA_HOME=<java_home>
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export JAVA_HOME
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- change
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- the
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- user
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- group
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- to
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- all
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- the
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- subdirs
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- in
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- <geronimo_home>
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chown -R
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root:www
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<geronimo_home>
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- create
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- a
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- deploy
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- directory
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- within
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- the
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- <geronimo_home>
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- directory
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- structure.
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- change
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- the
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- access
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- permissions
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- to
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- the
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- following
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- directories
chmod -R
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774
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<geronimo_home>/bin
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chmod -R
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774
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<geronimo_home>/deploy
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chmod -R
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774
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<geronimo_home>/repository
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chmod -R
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774
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<geronimo_home>/var
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- login
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- as
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- the
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- new
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- user
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- (i.e.
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- gmo)
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- cd
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- <geronimo_home>/bin
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- ./geronimo.sh
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- run
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You
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are
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now
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able
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to
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run
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and
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deploy
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applications
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with
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a
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user
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other
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than
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root.