Bind User - Group ?

[Pål Sollie]

Matthew Thompson <matthewt at fairplay.co.uk> writes:

> 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?

> M at t :o)

I think the daemon has to start as root, bind to whatever port(s), and
then switch to an unprivileged user, or some crap like that. Apache,
for instance, runs on port 80 as default, but it runs as user 'nobody'
on all my machines.

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