On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:24:10AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > One can't start or stop anything that requires a port under 1024 (such > as apache) without root permissions. You'll have to give them those, no > other option. > > You do have the option to go with sudo, however. Sudo allows you to > specify exactly which commands a user may or may not restart; you could > say that a user might run commands of this type: > > /etc/init.d/apache .* > <some editor> /etc/apache/httpd.conf
You could use authbind in order to require less privilege for this. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]