[TAG] Privileged Port Access for Users

[Ben Okopnik]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 07:12:53AM -0700, Britto I wrote:
>    Folks
> 
>    For some reason i want one my service should use the port < 1024
> 
>    It says access denied for the users other than root. Can we have any
>    workaround for this

Maybe. Depends on what you're doing. You could, for example, start a
server on a low port as root and then drop the privileges of the server
process - this is a common (and smart, if done right) tactic.


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