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SubjectRe: Capabilities
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Binding to a low port is a capability (or should be made one, as it is
> one of the special powers root enjoys right now).

Better would be to give low ports classic unix ownerships, so that
non-root user 'named' process can bind to e.g. udp/53, but no others.

e.g. 'chown named /proc/sockets/udp/53'

-Dan


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