On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>
> In today's computing environment, This just seems outrageously stupid to
> me.  It's not like being root is some magical, bureaucratically-approved
> status.  Any idiot can have root on a machine thanks to Linux, *BSD, Mac OS
> X, etc.  There's just nothing special about low ports anymore, if you ask
> me, so it seems kind of silly to still require that a process be owned by
> root in order to snag a listening port < 1024.  This should be fixable with
> relative ease (Linux, *BSD), but I've never looked into it.
>

Something like this http://killa.net/infosec/acls/

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