Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to run my gnump3d server on the typical port 80 so that my users don't > need to type in ports and some firewalls don't block access to my server. > I've been running it in Slackware Linux for about 2 years now. I changed > /etc/gnump3d/gnump3d.conf so that port is 80 but saw the comment in there > that the user has to be root to run on port 80. Why? Is running the server > as root with a command line only interface and iptables firewall a security > issue?
this is a Linux restriction, only privileged users may open incoming ports from 1 to 1024. A work around from an implementation point of view would be to open the port as root and then fork to an unprivileged user to serve the clients. Ben. _______________________________________________ Gnump3d-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnump3d-users
