[Bug 557300] Re: tomcat6 package should fully support running as a different user

[Max]

As far as I can tell, this is now working okay.  I haven't been able to
test a package upgrade, but have tried installing a new package with and
without /etc/default/tomcat6 already existing and with/without
TOMCAT6_[USER|GROUP] being set and all seems well.  If the tomcat6 user
and group are customised, the package sets the ownership as requested
and also does not create any extra users or groups.

The only slight problem is that the group for the log and cache
directories is hard-coded to adm and any post-installation changes will
be reverted by package updates.  I think we can live with this, but we
had previously changed this group to be the same as the group for the
other directories.

It is not possible for a sysadmin to tweak the permissions of
directories as these will not be honoured by future package updates (no
statoverride checks).  I believe this is intentional.

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tomcat6 package should fully support running as a different user
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557300
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