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Task #183

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tomcat running as root user under port 80

Added by Roberto Cirillo about 10 years ago. Updated about 8 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Category:
System Application
Start date:
May 30, 2015
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
(Total: 0.00 h)
Infrastructure:
Development, Production

Description

The following list contains all tomcat instances in production, running as root user under port 80:

node57.p.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu - UsageTracker service
geonetwork.d4science.org - Geonetwork
geonetwork.geothermaldata.d4science.org - Geonetwork
wps.statistical.d4science.org - WPS server

If possible, the new tomcat instances should be running under an unprivileged user.


Subtasks 2 (0 open2 closed)

Task #205: Automate the installation and configuration of the geonetwork serversClosedAndrea Dell'AmicoMay 30, 2015

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Task #206: Automate the installation of wps.statistical.d4science.orgClosedAndrea Dell'AmicoMay 30, 2015

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Related to D4Science Infrastructure - Task #536: Thredds: tomcat runs as rootClosedTommaso PiccioliSep 23, 2015

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Related to D4Science Infrastructure - Task #4771: Run smartgears on the rstudio-server instances as unprivileged userClosed_InfraScience Systems EngineerJul 21, 2016

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Actions #1

Updated by Andrea Dell'Amico about 10 years ago

The tomcat on node57.p.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu is running as 'transact' user and it's listening on port 8080. But I see a problem with the distribution: it's a Ubuntu 11.04, so it is unmantained.

Actions #2

Updated by Andrea Dell'Amico about 10 years ago

  • Due date set to May 30, 2015

due to changes in a related task

Actions #3

Updated by Andrea Dell'Amico about 10 years ago

Roberto Cirillo wrote:

The following list contains all tomcat instances in production, running as root user under port 80:

node57.p.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu - UsageTracker service
geonetwork.d4science.org - Geonetwork
geonetwork.geothermaldata.d4science.org - Geonetwork
wps.statistical.d4science.org - WPS server

If possible, the new tomcat instances should be running under an unprivileged user.

Other tomcat instances running as root:

thredds.research-infrastructures.eu
rstudio.p.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu

Actions #4

Updated by Andrea Dell'Amico almost 10 years ago

  • Related to Task #536: Thredds: tomcat runs as root added
Actions #5

Updated by Andrea Dell'Amico almost 10 years ago

  • Target version changed from System Configuration to improve tomcat security
Actions #7

Updated by Andrea Dell'Amico almost 9 years ago

  • Related to Task #4771: Run smartgears on the rstudio-server instances as unprivileged user added
Actions #8

Updated by Andrea Dell'Amico almost 9 years ago

  • Status changed from New to In Progress
  • Infrastructure Development added

tomcat instances still running as root:

  • wps.statistical.d4science.org
  • the geonetworks (there's a dev installation running unprivileged)
Actions #9

Updated by Andrea Dell'Amico about 8 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Closed

Those ones will die, eventually

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