Bug#1039974: tomcat10: tomcat user has wrong home "/var/lib/tomcat" directory in /etc/passwd

[Markus Koschany]

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> deploy .war in tomcat10
> got errors from tomcat10 in "journalctl -f"
> 
>    * What exactly did you do that was effective ?
> 
> change tomcat user home in /etc/passwd to /var/lib/tomcat10
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
> Problem solved

You most likely don't have to change the user home of tomcat to solve your
problem (which you did not specify at all)

There is a difference between the operating system user and home directory and
the applications' home directory.

See Debian bug https://bugs.debian.org/926338 for reference.

You have to tell your tomcat applications explicitly if they can write or read
certain file system directories. See /usr/share/doc/tomcat10/README.Debian for
more information. By default Debian's tomcat package is meant to be secure. It
is the task of the system administrator to configure tomcat correctly. 


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