On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 07:19:06AM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: > I know that UNIX does it so that normal users can't seem like legit and > important services, but there surely must be some better way of delegating a > port below 1024 to a deamon.
Well, at least on Linux, and with the right set of tools, one can do this using the kernel's capabilities. (Although I haven't touched the stuff much yet myself.) If you have a need to do this now and don't want to play with kernel caps then you might try the "authbind" package. I have used it before and it works! Package: authbind Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 42 Maintainer: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 1.1.5.1 Depends: libc6 Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/utils/authbind_1.1.5.1.deb Size: 14216 MD5sum: 9edd71256e67889c8a0964bb8ddf93d7 Description: Allows non-root programs to bind() to low ports This package allows a package to be started as non-root but still bind to low ports, without any changes to the application.
