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To: Sven K=?iso-8859-15?q?=F6?=hler <skoehler@upb.de>
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Subject: Re: allow process or user to listen on priviledged ports?
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From: Olaf Dietsche <olaf+list.linux-kernel@olafdietsche.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 18:23:07 +0100
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Sven Köhler <skoehler@upb.de> writes:

> my problem is, that i want an application to listen on a priviledged
> port (e.g. port 80) and to run as a "normal" unpriviledged user
>
> So is there any machanism to bind that permission (to listen on a
> priviledged tcp-port) to a specific user or a specific process?

Of course, there is :-)
<http://www.olafdietsche.de/linux/accessfs/>

Regards, Olaf.