Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-19 Thread André Warnier
Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 2/19/2010 5:45 AM, André Warnier wrote: - Since address 127.0.0.1 is the "local loopback" address on any host, a process can only connect to it from the local host, and from nowhere else. Yes, but things like

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-19 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 2/19/2010 5:45 AM, André Warnier wrote: > - Since address 127.0.0.1 is the "local loopback" address on any host, a > process can only connect to it from the local host, and from nowhere else. Yes, but things like SSH tunnels can be used to

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-19 Thread André Warnier
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Curtis Garman [mailto:curt.gar...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address yes...this is what I was told...thanks all for the info Unfortunately, pretty much all of what André wrote was wrong, as Mark explained. I apologise for the nonsense I

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Pid
On 18/02/2010 23:08, Curtis Garman wrote: yes...this is what I was told... thanks all for the info To be clear: Mark's answer is the correct one. p On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:52 AM, André Warnier wrote: Curtis Garman wrote: Is this something new for tomcat 6?...I was told there was a s

RE: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Curtis Garman [mailto:curt.gar...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address > > yes...this is what I was told...thanks all for the info Unfortunately, pretty much all of what André wrote was wrong, as Mark explained. So again, what you were told was fals

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Curtis Garman
yes...this is what I was told...thanks all for the info On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:52 AM, André Warnier wrote: > Curtis Garman wrote: > >> Is this something new for tomcat 6?...I was told there was a security >> vulnerability there with tomcat 5 >> > > Yes. At some point in time inversion 5.0 or

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Pid
On 18/02/2010 15:42, Curtis Garman wrote: Is this something new for tomcat 6?...I was told there was a security vulnerability there with tomcat 5 I don't see an address property in either of the below: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/server.html http://svn.apache.org/repos/as

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread André Warnier
Mark Thomas wrote: On 18/02/2010 15:42, Curtis Garman wrote: Is this something new for tomcat 6?...I was told there was a security vulnerability there with tomcat 5 By whom? It has been this way since Tomcat 4. The issue, if I recall correctly, was with some of the Tomcat 3 releases. Ooops..

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread André Warnier
Curtis Garman wrote: Is this something new for tomcat 6?...I was told there was a security vulnerability there with tomcat 5 Yes. At some point in time inversion 5.0 or 5.5 or 6.0, someone realised that if this "shutdown port" allowed connections from anywhere, there was a theoretical possib

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Mark Thomas
On 18/02/2010 15:42, Curtis Garman wrote: > Is this something new for tomcat 6?...I was told there was a security > vulnerability there with tomcat 5 By whom? It has been this way since Tomcat 4. The issue, if I recall correctly, was with some of the Tomcat 3 releases. Mark > > On Thu, Feb 18,

RE: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Curtis Garman [mailto:curt.gar...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address > > Is this something new for tomcat 6?...I was told there was a security > vulnerability there with tomcat 5 You were misinformed. The shutdown port has always been open onl

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Curtis Garman
Is this something new for tomcat 6?...I was told there was a security vulnerability there with tomcat 5 On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Pid wrote: > On 18/02/2010 15:14, Curtis Garman wrote: > >> I'm moving from tomcat 5.5.25 to tomcat 6.0.18 and have noticed one >> problem. >> I use to be able

Re: tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Pid
On 18/02/2010 15:14, Curtis Garman wrote: I'm moving from tomcat 5.5.25 to tomcat 6.0.18 and have noticed one problem. I use to be able to define the following in my server.xml ... but now the address portion won't work...I only want shutdown commands to be able to come from localhost...can s

tomcat 6.0.18 shutdown address

2010-02-18 Thread Curtis Garman
I'm moving from tomcat 5.5.25 to tomcat 6.0.18 and have noticed one problem. I use to be able to define the following in my server.xml ... but now the address portion won't work...I only want shutdown commands to be able to come from localhost...can someone help me? I don't know if the syntax j