One way would be a package like sudo: http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/
Another way is to redirect port 80 to 8080 so that you don't need root
permissions to run the server which is more secure.
One way to do this is with ipchains:
ipchains -A input -s 0/0 -d 80 -j REDIRECT 8080
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From: "marc fleury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 3:50 PM
Subject: [JBoss-dev] please help (Unix port permissions)
> I need help, pardon my ignorance of UNIX
>
> JBOSS.ORG runs on a linux box somewhere in the US. I am porting the whole
> jboss site to run with JBOSS/TOMCAT as we are making the site a little more
> "app" oriented and we need a real app server.
>
> So I want to create a user called joe and joe must have the rights to listen
> on ports <1024, most notably joe must be able to launch JBOSS/TOMCAT on port
> 80.
>
> what are the commands I must issue to get joe to get the right privileges?
> feel free to answer in private...
>
> hoping the west coast brigade is still up...
>
> regards
>
> marcf
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