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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.texoma.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!ix.netcom.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!news1.iamerica.net!xavier.varmm.com!not-for-mail 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 Organization: LDS I-America Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <57fo64$29m@news1.iamerica.net> References: <570bf4$spf@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.81.50.10 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 960917] 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- My opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer, or anyone else for that matter. O- ----------------------------------------------------------------