set http port 80 to a no root user

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Fri May 6 17:51:42 PDT 2005


On Thu, 05 May 2005 16:23:38 +0200, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:

>hello , i would like to know how can i set a permission to a non root user 
>to use the http public port 80 .

Just a thought, but you could use ipf, or ipfw or pf to redirect
inbound port 80 requests to something above port 1024. That way you
dont have to start your app as a root process nor worry about dropping
privs.

	---Mike
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