On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 17:02, Entelin wrote: > Is their a way, or plans (that anyone knows of) to have access control > on low ports? I think it would be great to be able to specify which > ports would be allowed for which users and so fourth rather than just > having all low port be bindable only by root. This would make it easier > to run many servers as users rather than root. Rather than all of the > many ways people have come up with to help increase security in such > situations, chroot, drop root after bind, etc etc. Please read Kernel Traffic # 236, item #5: Kernel Port-Availability Security Suggestion http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20031026_236.html A good discussion by the professionals already discussed this.