From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 7 00:51:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7421216A4D4 for ; Sat, 7 May 2005 00:51:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 204E743D3F for ; Sat, 7 May 2005 00:51:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from BLUELAPIS.sentex.ca (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3) with SMTP id j470pe4M015442; Fri, 6 May 2005 20:51:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: "Mrad James Deane" Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 20:51:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.84, clamav-milter version 0.84e on smarthost2.sentex.ca X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: set http port 80 to a no root user X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 00:51:42 -0000 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=20 >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 -------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net Providing Internet Access since 1994 mike@sentex.net, (http://www.tancsa.com)