Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: UID permissions mappings for "privileged ports" feature -- anybody done? | Date | Tue, 5 Nov 1996 20:41:15 +0000 (GMT) |
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> Seems to me it would be easy to make a simple switch statement for > privileged ports which would allow a certain user to access a certain > privileged port -- and only that user (even disallow root if specified) -- > that way it would be easier to set up well known services without having > to sit there and set up suid bits, etc. for all the servers. This would > be most useful for standalone servers such as web servers, etc.
Not a kernel issue: You can spawn such things from inetd or you can write a setuid program that does
allocate socket bind to priviledged port drop priviledges exec user program
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