running tomcat as root

Sam Seaver <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.sun.servlet
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have a question...

Tomcat is installed at /usr/local/tomcat and i start it up as root.

Does this pose any greater security risk than running it as normal user?

thanks
Sam

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