low ports, and root

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Author: Entelin
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Subject: low ports, and root
Great thanks for the update :)

On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 10:14, Liberty Young wrote:
> 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.
>
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