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Are you sure about the group write permissions?  I glanced at the jailkit web page and it looks like it's sugar coating and chrome around a chroot.  So I would think that using unix groups would work.  And on the flip side, if unix groups don't work, it seems to me that ACLs wouldn't either.


epicwinter@hotmail.com wrote:
> I have the latest tomcat 6 installed under centos 5.2.  The problem I am having is that it appears that I have to run tomcat as root user, because the spring app that tomcat starts needs to write files to other users' home directories.  The tomcat user doesn't have access to these directories.
> 
> I tried making these users part of a shared group, but to complicate the problem the users are jailed using jailkit.  So it doesn't appear that jailkit lets me add group write privileges to the home directories and maintain a working jail.
> 
> Can anyone suggest another alternative?  I am not linux user expert so maybe there is an obvious solution i am missing?
> thanks
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