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I tried to manage permission on my tomcat group this morning to be able to access the /webapps folder through eclipse without having to run it as root.

What i've already done:

-Removed .lock file at .metadata in my /usr/share/tomcat8/webapps

-Followed these steps to set up permissions the "right way" https://superuser.com/questions/632618/best-practice-for-access-permission-to-users-for-apache-tomcat

Still eclipse won't open using this workspace as a non-root user. I get two error messages : followed by

Here are some information of use.

Operating System: Arch Linux
Kernel Version: 4.18.16-arch1-1-ARCH

[falkon@BlackHawk bin]$ pacman -Qi eclipse
Name : eclipse-jee
Version : 4.9-1
Description : Highly extensible IDE for JEE
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://eclipse.org
Licenses : EPL
Groups : None
Provides : eclipse=4.9-1
Depends On : eclipse-common java-environment>=8 webkit2gtk unzip
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : eclipse
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 233.19 MiB
Packager : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <jan.steffens@gmail.com>
Build Date : Wed 19 Sep 2018 10:35:43 PM +01
Install Date : Wed 26 Sep 2018 01:43:36 PM +01
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature

[falkon@BlackHawk bin]$ groups
tomcat8 network wheel falkon
[falkon@BlackHawk bin]$ ls -la /usr/share/tomcat8/ /usr/share/tomcat8/webapps/
/usr/share/tomcat8/:
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 6 tomcat8 tomcat8 4096 Nov 2 09:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 298 root root 12288 Nov 2 15:23 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 2 09:11 backup
drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat8 tomcat8 4096 Sep 26 18:00 bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat8 tomcat8 12 Sep 7 10:49 conf -> /etc/tomcat8
drwxr-xr-x 6 tomcat8 tomcat8 4096 Oct 30 11:34 Ensa
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat8 tomcat8 23 Sep 7 10:49 lib -> /usr/share/java/tomcat8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat8 tomcat8 16 Sep 7 10:49 logs -> /var/log/tomcat8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat8 tomcat8 21 Sep 7 10:49 temp -> /var/tmp/tomcat8/temp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat8 tomcat8 24 Sep 7 10:49 webapps -> /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat8 tomcat8 21 Sep 7 10:49 work -> /var/tmp/tomcat8/work
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 2 09:29 wtpwebapps

/usr/share/tomcat8/webapps/:
total 1772
drwxrwxr-x 17 tomcat8 tomcat8 4096 Nov 2 09:20 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 tomcat8 tomcat8 4096 Sep 26 16:25 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 2 09:20 conf
drwxrwsr-x 14 tomcat8 tomcat8 4096 Sep 26 18:00 docs
drwxrwsr-x 6 root root 4096 Oct 30 11:34 Etudiant
-rw-rwSr-- 1 root root 1741558 Oct 30 11:55 Etudiant.war
drwxrwsr-x 6 root tomcat8 4096 Oct 24 17:27 examples
drwxrwsr-x 5 tomcat8 tomcat8 4096 Sep 26 18:00 host-manager
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 2 09:20 logs
drwxrwsr-x 5 tomcat8 tomcat8 4096 Sep 26 18:00 manager
drwxrwsr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 2 08:56 .metadata
drwxrwsr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 1 19:43 .recommenders
drwxrwsr-x 3 tomcat8 tomcat8 4096 Sep 26 18:00 ROOT
drwxrwsr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 30 10:48 Servers
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 2 09:20 temp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 2 09:20 webapps
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 2 09:20 work
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 2 09:20 wtpwebapps