On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 12:19:13PM +0100, Graham Perrin wrote:
> On 25 Aug 2006, at 11:36, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> and change the port from 7080 to 80, then

Yep, this is the problem as Marius pointed out. Debian, for security
reasons, runs schooltool as the user schooltool not as root. Meaning
that you cannot use schooltool on ports below 1024.

The solution you can implement right now to run schooltool on port 80 is
to use apache virtual hosting (as described in the schooltool README):

http://source.schooltool.org/svn/trunk/schooltool/README.txt

A further solution would be to implement privilege dropping in
schooltool, where schooltool would start as root, bind to the ports and
then change it's user to something else.

btw, do we have an FAQ? This question has come up a few times before.

-- 
Brian Sutherland

Metropolis - "it's the first movie with a robot. And she's a woman.
              And she's EVIL!!"
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