Re: These 'roots' are bugging me.

[Steve Mickeler <steve@neptune.on.ca>]

But the same capability doesnt exist in the N amount of other unix
variants, thus the option to run bind with the -u and -g switches seem to
be the best overall solution for cross platform standardization.



On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Tim Haynes wrote:

> Steve Mickeler <steve@neptune.on.ca> writes:
> 
> > Its neither a debian or linux problem.
> >
> > ports below 1024 are priviledged ports which can only be bound to by the
> > super user.
> >
> > just like apache starts as root, but then spawns child processes as a non
> > root user, the same thing is done with bind when started with the -u and
> > -g options.
> 
> It's a linux feature that you can get kernel patches to permit various
> processes / users to bind to various low ports. Otherwise, you don't need
> to be root, you need the relevant Capability in the kernel.
> 
> ~Tim
> -- 
> <http://spodzone.org.uk/>
> 



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