Can I have some clarification about installing Tomcat as the user solr? See http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrTomcat#Installing_Tomcat_6 second paragraph, which states "Create the solr user. As solr, extract the Tomcat 6.0 download into /opt/tomcat6".
Does this user need a home-dir? (I'm guessing no). Should it have it's own private group? If so, is that group a system group with GID < 500? What about a login shell (again I'm guessing not necessary) The documentation doesn't go on to say that you should switch to the solr user account when installing SOLR. Sorry if that sounds like a dumb question, but there is no explanation about why tomcat needs to be installed as solr rather than tomcat or root. Thanks.
