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For recent releases of Debian and Ubuntu the tomcat6 package includes a dependency on the authbind package and a default authbind configuration that allows the Tomcat 6 container to bind to ports < 1024.
To leverage the authbind configuration edit the Tomcat 6 configuration file /etc/default/tomcat6 must be edited and the option AUTHBIND set to 'yes'. and set
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AUTHBIND=yes
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See also the man page for authbind.