Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Feb 2000 19:50:38 -0800 (PST) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: Capabilities |
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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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