Re: User Based Init

[Peter Makholm <peter@makholm.net>]

Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be> writes:

> One can't start or stop anything that requires a port under 1024 (such
> as apache) without root permissions. You'll have to give them those, no
> other option.

Apache doesn't require a port under 1024. By default it is set up to
use port 80 på it is quite common to have Apaches bound to some other
ports (8000, 8080, 8888 being often used). 

I have often done this as normal user.

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