Is there any way to get Orion to drop root privilages after binding to
the port?
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 05:39:18PM +0200, Mattias Arbin wrote:
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> > Mattias Arbin wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to setup a linux user (Red Hat 6.2) to run orion.
> > > When starting Orion I get the error:
> > >
> > > Error starting HTTP-Server: Permission denied
> > > Orion/1.1.37 initialized
> > >
> > > Nothing in the logs.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > /Mattias
> >
> > Hi Mattias,
> >
> > Normally, that happens when you're trying to launch orion without root
> > privileges. Ports below 1024 are reserved and can only be bound by
> > root-owned programs.
> > There are several solutions, but the easiest is to choose:
> >
> > 1 - You want Orion to listen to port 80 (the standard http port) and so
> > you must launch it on a root prompt
> > 2 - You don't mind if Orion does not listen to other port (say, for
> > instance, 8080), but you want to launch it from an ordinary user
> > account. In this case, you must edit the
> > <orion_path>/config/default-web-site.xml
> > and on the <web-site ... tag, change the port from port="80" to
> > port="8080".
> >
> > In theory either one of these solutions, will make the permission denied
> > error go away
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > F�bio
>
> Thanks. That explains the error.
> However, my problem was not that I could't start Orion. I have run it as
> root until now.
> I just thought that it might be good, for security reasons, to create a user
> with
> less priviliges than root, to run Orion.
>
> /Thanks,
> Mattias
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