[Gllug] [OT] Linux question - core dumps

Simon A. Boggis simon at dcs.qmul.ac.uk
Mon Feb 17 01:12:10 UTC 2003


On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 23:20, Chris Wareham wrote:
> Can you not setup a minimal proxy to forward the requests to another
> port, and have a non-priveleged version of your (HTTP?) daemon running
> on that?

The easiest minimal would be to use iptables to redirect the port.

If capabilities (or something better) ever get here properly, then there
would be no need to make a daemon that simply needs a "privileged" port
(or other privilege) run as root to get it.

Simon


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