Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Ondřej Surý writes ("Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit"):
> On 9 Aug 2019, at 09:22, Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> > Actually as a user of my services I do not even notice any difference, so 
> > for me it is: What is actually the point of starting them on demand?
> 
> Unprivileged access to port < 1024.  The socket-activated services can start
> as user since the port binding is done by the systemd, not the daemon.

This is a good reason to use inetd or socket activation, indeed.

But there are other ways.  Many traditional daemons can start as root
and drop privileges.  And of course there is authbind.[1]

Ian.

[1] which I wrote and maintain, insofar as maintenance is needed.

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