On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 04:37:48PM +0100, Peter Saenger wrote: > For security reasons I would like to run the daemons as a nonroot user. > > But when executing > 'sudo -u courier /etc/init.d/pop3d start' > it fails with > ---- > bind: Permission denied > ll_daemon_start: Resource temporarily unavailable > ---- > > This is clearly because only root is allowed to bind a port below 1024. > > So courier should first bind to port 110 or 143 and after that switch user to > 'courier' (as e.g. mysqld does). > > Does anyone know, if there is a patch for that problem available?
No patch is required: man 1 couriertcpd In your pop3d configuration file change TCPDOPTS to: TCPDOPTS="-nodnslookup -noidentlookup -user=courier" ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
