On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:40:49PM +0100, Juergen Salk wrote: > > Most services (like apache, e.g.) follow a different approach: > They have to be run by root initially, and drop privileges as > soon as they have done binding their privileged ports. However, > this is obviously not the way imagectn is supposed to work.
The other primary alternative is a SUID wrapper that opens the specified
port, and hands it over to the application which runs without SUID
privileges. However, that may not be the cleanest way; another response
in this thread has already covered the more tightly integrated method of
dealing with this.
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