Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:40, Nick Rout wrote:Quite an intresting document. I will use the higher ports because if I want to use something like compartment I had to do that with Java or eclipse. compartment seems to be quite usefull but I can't find it in my (SuSE-) distro and google is useless because "compartment" is unfortunatly an english word. (By the way: Finding something about C is much more difficult.)
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 18:35 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/HOWTO/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/minimize-privileges.html
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:33, Robert Himmelmann wrote:how do other servers do it? I am aware of the concept of "dropping
Is there a way (s/expect/apart/ from suid) to allow normal users toNo, that's the whole point of the protected ports ( 1 - 1023 ).
run a server that listens on port 21?
privileges", but don't know how it works. I suspect Robert would like to
know...
Thanks for your help.
In a word 'complex'.
Praise be to Google, but it seems to be just the ticket none-the-less.
Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann
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