Right. If you want to run under another user *and* on privileged port, you must start mongrel as root, a and when the port is bound you can have mongrel drop it's privileges by Process.uid= or Process::UID.change_privilege.
Mongrel does this dropping (lib/mongrel.rb:725, in Configurator#initialize) before the ports are bound (the block gets executed right after the privileges drop). If these two were exchanged, it might do what you want, although it may have other implications, that I'm not able to tell now. Jano On 6/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Port 80 is a privileged port, meaning only processes running as root can > bind to that port. Even though you are initiating the command as root, you > are telling mongrel it should run as user rails. Since rails != root, > mongrel will not run on port 80 as with any -u value other than root. _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
