Steve Mickeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Its neither a debian or linux problem. > > ports below 1024 are priviledged ports which can only be bound to by the > super user. > > just like apache starts as root, but then spawns child processes as a non > root user, the same thing is done with bind when started with the -u and > -g options.
It's a linux feature that you can get kernel patches to permit various processes / users to bind to various low ports. Otherwise, you don't need to be root, you need the relevant Capability in the kernel. ~Tim -- <http://spodzone.org.uk/>
