I don't see any need for this.

You can run a java service on ports < 1024 without being root with 
portmappers, proxies, iptables and several other tools, that let 
sysadmins open well defined holes without compromising the security.

In the long term I would like to see ACL's in the os, that define 
something like 'Allow binary y that is started by user x to bind to 
port z'

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrence, Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:13 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: RE: Running Tomcat as Non-Root
> 
> 
> It's a java problem as the OSes that block access to <1024 ports give
> native code api's to open these ports and then loose the root privs.
> Java should allow those of us who are interested in running java
> services to have the option to take advantage of this. 
> 

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