Jean-Philippe Steinmetz wrote: > Definitely not a dumb question. I would love to run Tomcat on port 80 but I > discovered that (under debian at least) I am unable to run Tomcat as a > non-root user on any port under 1024 (linux security). I am also not very > keen on running Tomcat as root. I have spent hours searching for ways and > everyone seems to think redirection is the only option. If you know of a way > to get Debian to allow Tomcat to bind at port 80 I would love to know. Anything meeting this criteria could be termed an exploit. An alternative to iptables for simulating this behavior is xinetd. See http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/l-secjav.html#h5
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