Re: List Archive boo-boo

[Michael Viron <mviron@wsdo.sao.uwf.edu>]

>> -the second one is about patches. in the world are a lot of nice patches
>> for the kernel, which do not go to the kernel source because the facility
>> provided is not useful for the majority. for example, here, in my
>> laboratory, the former netadmin made a patch which allows some programs
>> like bind, apache, etc. which normaly run as root, to be run as a normal
>> user from a special group (netgroup) which has the right to bind to
>> reserved ports. this is great for me, and i have continued to update the
>> patch for the 2.2. kernels, and i am happy that my www server and named
>> are not running as root. and there are for sure a lot of patches of this
>> kind, very useful, but hidden from the public. i think it should be a
>> place for them in the knowledge base.
Actually, apache, by default runs under "nobody" with group "nobody" at
least on RedHat & Slackware--it only has to be initially started at root
for a specific range of ports.


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Michael Viron
Computer Support Specialist
University Commons & Student Activities
University of West Florida