Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:16:10 +0800 | From | Andrey Savochkin <> | Subject | Re: bind() - Old/Current behaviour - Change? |
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:50:29AM -0700, David Lang wrote: > I was thinking about this problem late last week and would like to throw > out a off-the-wall proposal. > > for a dedicated server (no end-user logins) how about making a kernel > compile option that removes the 'only root can bind to ports <1024' limit? > > this would allow programs that now need to run as root to bind the port to > just run as a normal user from the start. > > comments?
Such relaxation of the checks may be easily achieved by delegating the corresponding capability to every process.
Best regards Andrey V. Savochkin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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