Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: sockfs (was: setting access rights to priviledged ports) | Date | Sat, 17 Oct 1998 15:34:35 +0100 (BST) |
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> setuid port-allocator, but most such `solutions' require hacking the deamon's > code.
Or learning about LD_PRELOAD
> So I re-ask the question: what was the incentive for not putting sockfs in the > standard kernel ? Bad code ? Bloat ? Lack of usefulness ?
Because it can be done just fine in user space. 2.1.x cleans things up by having capabilities. So you need a capability to bind to low ports, you dont have to be root with all the root powers
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