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Re: exploring debian's users and groups



On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:24:40PM -0700, Marc Martinez wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:01:29PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:13:01PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> > > somebody might want to start apache as non-root for security reasons
> > > (I do). Logfiles owned by www-data come handy in this case.
> > 
> > How do you make it bind to port 80 then?

I am using pseudo-acl's
However, one can run apache on other port
(and eventually use a port forwarder, if port 80 is desirable)

> 
> if you're not using an enhanced kernel (LIDS, pseudo-acl's, RSBAC,
> etc) and only need ipv4 sockets you might look into the 'authbind'
> package.  minimal extra setup, other than needing to edit the init.d
> script of the program in question, and it does the job quite nicely.

were you able to make it work with apache? It did not work for me

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