Re: setting access rights to priviledged ports

Krzysztof G. Baranowski (kgb@manjak.knm.org.pl)
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:03:27 +0200 (EEST)

On 13 Oct 1998, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I seem to remember people working on a "thingie" that would allow
> the sysadm to say that port 25 can be opened by user 'mail' so that
> sendmail can be made setuid-mail (and so on for news, dns, ...)
> Does such a thing exist ?
Yes, look in the kernel archive for 'sockfs'.

Kris

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