Bind User - Group ?

Ralf Hildebrandt R.Hildebrandt at tu-bs.de
Mon Apr 3 13:27:27 UTC 2000


On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 01:52:49PM +0100, Matthew Thompson wrote:
> I thought that this was generally frowned upon as most Unixes (Unixi?)
> require a daemon to run as root in order to have access to ports below 1024.
> 
> Or am I getting confused?

named runs as root, binds to the port and drops privileges afterwards.



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