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From: AJ Musgrove <musgrove@xavier.varmm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Letting httpd run port 80 (quick newbie question)
Date: 26 Nov 1996 21:41:24 GMT
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Dannyman <dannyman@arh0135.urh.uiuc.edu> wrote:
: 	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
: told them to do that at compile time, but I want all of httpd to run as
: httpd, or is this a waste of effort? :)

I believe that a process must be root to bind any port < 2000.

-- 
AJ Musgrove

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