Qingning Huo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Sorry for the English reply]
Not at all. :-) > The key question is whether the program is meant to be run by non-root > users. If the program should only be run by root, you do not have to > do anything special. If the program is designed to be used by non-root > users, you have some choices: (a) make the program setuid to root, you > should be very careful to manage the privilege of the program, which is > not an easy task; or (b) you can write a small setuid-root program to > bind the socket, and then drop priviledges and invoke the main program > as a non-root user. > For development, you can test/debug your program with a non-privileged > port number. I got it. setuid is a both dangerous and nice thing.. That helps a lot. Thanks ! -- William ((email . "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") (blog . "http://matchsticker.mysmth.net";)) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
