You can run Orion as a native user using some native code that is available
somewher.e Unfortunatly, information on how this was done used to be on
www.orionsupport.com which appears to be down. There is some info in
this e-mail:
http://www.mail-archive.com/orion-interest@orionserver.com/msg01696.html
But I don't know where to get the native library any more. Orion team?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Markus Holmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: Orion on Linux NOT as root
> If you're OS has support for it you can set up packet filtering (aka
> firewalling) rules that forward packets going to the privileged port
> 80 to some unprivileged port, for example 8000. Then just make Orion
> listen on that unprivileged port.
>
> Works like a charm for me.
>
> In Linux's case I guess ipchains would be used. I can only provide
> instructions for FreeBSD.
>
> Markus
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 04:38:12PM -0400, Jim Archer wrote:
> > Hi All...
> >
> > We have been developing under Orion on Windows machines, but the time
came
> > last night to start testing on Linux, our intended server platform. We
> > installed 1.3.8 on Debian Linux and quickly discovered that it wants to
run
> > as root. We really can't allow this.
> >
> > I went through the list archive and saw a discussion about this issue
from
> > last April, but didn't see what the resolution was (if any).
> >
> > Is there now a way to run Orion on Linux not as root (ideally as user
> > nobody) and, if so, is there any doc on this?
> >
> > Thanks...
> >
> > Jim
> >
>
> --
>
> Markus Holmberg | Give me Unix or give me a typewriter.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.freebsd.org/
>
