How to run tomcat6 on ubuntu as root?

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Published on 2010-04-26T14:04:01Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 14:14 UTC
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I've got an existing software package that runs on Ubuntu that uses a chroot jail and so needs to be run as root. I want to exec this from Tomcat6 on Ubuntu, so presumably I have to run Tomcat6 as root instead of the Tomcat6 user.

How do I go about changing tomcat6 to run as root instead of the tomcat6 user?

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