On Thu, July 15, 2010 09:38, Frank Cusack wrote: > On 7/15/10 9:49 AM +0900 BM wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Paul B. Henson <hen...@acm.org> wrote: >> >>> ZFS is great. It's pretty much the only reason we're running Solaris. >>> >> >> Well, if this is the the only reason, then run FreeBSD instead. I run >> Solaris because of the kernel architecture and other things that Linux >> or any BSD simply can not do. For example, running something on a port below >> 1000, but as a true >> non-root (i.e. no privileges dropping, but straight-forward run by a >> non-root). > > Um, there's plenty of things Solaris can do that Linux and FreeBSD can't > do, but non-root privileged ports is not one of them.
Using least privileges' "net_privaddr" allows a process to bind to a port below 1000 without granting full root access to the process owner. Regards, Siggi _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
