Re: Bind to privileged (<1024) ports

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (root@lightside.ddns.org)
Tue, 9 Jun 1998 06:29:00 +0200 (MET DST)

> #port uids
> 25 8 # mail
> 80 39 # httpd
>
> could allow a httpd running as UID 39 (which is associated with the login
> "httpd") to bind to port 80 without root-privileges. The table could be
> named /etc/bind_perm and activated by

Hm, can't you just set CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE if you want to bind below
1024?

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