On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Claudio Nieder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > b) have tcpserver run as a nobody, thus have qmail-popup run as a
>
> On all Unix I know, you couldn't do that, because tcpserver has to bind
> to port 110 for pop, and only root has the permission to bind to ports
> below 1024.
Yes, yes. Of course tcpserver has to start as root to bind() to the
POP port. The -u -g options come into effect after binding but before
tcpserver accepts connections.
My question is whether it should continue to run as root after the
bind().
Regards.
