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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Letting httpd run port 80 (quick newbie question) Date: 22 Nov 1996 08:15:44 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 11 Message-ID: <573nfg$pqp@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <570bf4$spf@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva1.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In <570bf4$spf@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, dannyman@arh0135.urh.uiuc.edu (Dannyman) writes: > Okay, Apache here ... > > I've tried running httpd suid username httpd, but then it's not >allowed to bind port 80. How can I allow this to occur, are there any other >suggestions? The child processes sitting around run under httpd, I think I Allowing any user other than root to start processes that listen to one of the reserved ports (ports under 1024) is a security hole plugged in modern Unixes.