Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:34:17 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mohammad A. Haque" <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux |
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Tomas Telensky wrote:
> :-) Great. > You and Alex are right - I agree that this is a complete moronism. > > But, what I should say to the network security, is that AFAIK in the most > of linux distributions the standard daemons (httpd, sendmail) are run as > root! Having multi-user system or not! Why? For only listening to a port > <1024? Is there any elegant solution?
If your distro is runnign httpd as root you may want to give them a nice swift kick in the behind. By default apache is configured to run as nobody.
Dunno about sendmail.
Correct. <1024 requires root to bind to the port.
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