Yes you must be root to use ports below 1024.
Clayton Peirens wrote:
>
> It is my understanding that in Unix and Linux that only su can use/activate
> ports below 1024. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Clayton
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Sabourdin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 6:26 AM
> Subject: Re: ANYONE gotten tomcat3.1 stand-alone to work with linux ?
>
> > Hi!
> > This thread might be wrong but I use tomcat
> > standalone, on RedHat 6.2 with jdk 1.3 (firstly IBM,
> > know i try the SUN version). And I have a probleme
> > that seem relative. If I use tomcat has a user on port
> > 8080, it works. If I use tomcat has a user on port 80,
> > I have the same error (FATAL:java.net.BindException:
> > Permission denied
> > java.net.BindException: Permission denied
> > at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Native
> > Method)). If I use tomcat has root [or command su] on
> > port 80, then it works. It is surely link to the
> > permission policy of my linux, but I am still a newbis
> > in linux.
> > regards
> >
> >
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