port 80 listening than root user

[Abu Khaled]

On 6/16/05, Abu Khaled <khaled.abu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/16/05, Mrad James Deane <xtremejames183 at msn.com> wrote:
> > Hello i want to know how can the www user listen on the port 80 rather than
> > root or what is the the step or commade to take that allow the www user
> > listen on port 80
> > i'm tryin to run my webserver (aolserver)for www from root but i keep the
> > message cannot listen to port 80 permission denied.
> > Please help ,
> > Thanks
> >
> 
> Does not AOLserver run as user nobody and group nobody by default on freebsd?
> 
> Check the script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/aolserver.sh
> 

Does running the command below help ?

as root
# /usr/local/aolserver/nsd -t </pathtoconfig/config.tcl> -u www -g www

or in foreground mode

# /usr/local/aolserver/nsd -f -t </pathtoconfig/config.tcl> -u www -g www

Can you provide the messages you get?

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Kind regards
Abu Khaled