While it is true that all services running on UNIX and requiring a bind on
ports below 1024 must start as root, it isn't accurate to say that all of
them run as root. All of the servers that we run on our production servers
provide us with a way to switch the user id once the service has grabbed
the privileged port. We don't run any servers that accept connections from
the Internet and process requests running as root. This is going to be a
major problem for most hosting providers.
To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (bcc: Dan L.
Pritchett/TheSphereHQ)
Subject: Re: Orion on Linux
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Mike Cannon-Brookes wrote:
> Has anyone successfully installed Orion on Linux? I've got it installed
and
> running as root.
>
> I've also create an orion user & group to run the server, but when I
start
> the server as the user 'orion' it won't allow me to start the httpd
daemon -
> has anyone done this? is everyone just running it as root? ;)
If you want it to bind to port 80, then yes you have to run it as root.
The reason for this is that Unix doesn't allow any other user than root to
open ports with number 1023 and lower.
This is true for all servers running on Unix.
