starting tomcat on port 80 on CentOS release 5.5 (Final)

Question

I want to start Tomcat 6.0.29 on port 80. My OS is CentOS release 5.5 (Final) I changed following line in $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml

Answer 1

Another option is to use authbind.

From Wikipedia:

The authbind software allows a program that would normally require superuser privileges to access privileged network services to run as a non-privileged user.