port change to 80 (less than 1024) on unix (freebsd)

[Rahul Mathur]

Hi,
There have been several posts on this topic but they did not seem to address this question, or I am doing something wrong.
When trying to change jboss to respond to a different port (> 1024) say 8084
the technique of changing jbossweb-tomcat50.sar/server.xml works fine.

But when you set it to port 80, the HTTP port, this does not work.
the problem being that jboss (or tomcat) is not running as user root and is therefore not allowed to access ports < 1024. (Running as root is not a secure solution)

On tomcat 5.x page they recommend the use of jsvc.
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/setup.html
"jsvc has other useful parameters, such as -user which causes it to switch to another user after the daemon initialization is complete. This allows, for example, running Tomcat as a non privileged user while still being able to use privileged ports."

Has any one tried using the jsvc with jboss?
Or is there an easier solution that I am missing.
(I did exhaust my googling abilities, )


Thanks in advance,

RM