>Alternatively, is there a way to make Linux so that it lets any user bind
>to any port?
So you don't mind one of your machine's users (or a cracker who has
guessed a bad password) installing their own little fake webserver on port
80 that does {pick your poison}?
The practice of allowing only root to bind below 1024 is a convention, not
a requirement, and although some badly implemented software (eg sendmail)
has resulted in "bad things", you can gain a certain amount of trust with
a machine that requires root privileges to run software on certain
ports. Whether or not you actually trust the root user and the machine is
a different story ;)
Like John said, you can change the source or use an OS that doesn't care
what you do below 1024.
Cheers,
Michael
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