Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Dec 1999 08:18:51 +0000 ( ) | From | Gerhard Mack <> | Subject | permissions for sockets |
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On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > I would like to see an option that does the folowing: > > 1) Let "normal user" programs bind to ports < 1024 > > ONLY IF > > 2) that program was given this "capability" by root, for example > > by means of an file-system flag. > > Actually someone made a patch to give traditional permissions to sockets > <1024, so you could chown/chgrp/chmod them to specific users. Far cleaner > solution in my opinion. > IF there was a way to bind permissions to port ranges and ip addresses life would be much simpler for many of us... Especially for shellservers.
Gerhard
-- Gerhard Mack
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<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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