In order to define an application server, e.g., Glassfish, into the services repository of NB, I am forced to run NB under root permissions so certain files in the Glassfish bundle can be touched or executed by NB when accessed through the IDE.
The J2EE bundle for linux out of the box requires you to install under root access. After which, while I as a non-root user can then start the IDE in my own account, if I attempt to access the GF server it errors with permission access violations.
Other postings that I've found of users having this problem simply run NBs as root and live with it, I don't believe this is a viable option in a true shared OS. For starters, if there multiple users on the system it shouldn't be a reasonable workaround to have them all working under the root account (I hope I don't have to explain why), all added NBs plugins, personal configuration settings, etc, that each user on the system using NBs desire would go straight into the root account, sort of breaks the idea of "personal settings", eh?

I don't purport on being an experience Linux administrator so how this can be fixed is out of my range, there may in fact be an obvious tweak I can make to adjust this but have come up empty in my search for a solution.

I was able to configure GF separately so that it can be controlled by users on the system who have been assigned to a glassfishadm group without the restriction of being root, but I don't know how or if such a group designation can be assigned to the NBs process in a like manner.

In my view this is essentially broken for any real multi-user environment application.