Re: Eu questions in Linux
On 30 Jun 2000, at 0:46, cense wrote:
>
> One problem i can see right off the bat is that you are trying to run a linux
> daemon ( server ) on port 23. You may not be running the standard telnetd
> daemon
> there but unless you are running your server with root privileges, you will
> not
> be able to use port 23. Here is the why: Linux does not allow any user to
> run a daemon on a port lower than 1024 without root privileges. The reason?
> When daemons used to be used directly ( telnet, finger, etc ) alot more
> frequently then they are used today, a port under 1024 was assumed to be a
> trusted daemon, because only the admin could run a daemon on these ports. I
> guess the trend just continued.
So if i wanted to write an ftp and an http and an email server in Eu (3 total
servers), put
them on a linux box all by themselves but as a non-root apps (3 separate
processes),
and plug it into a LAN, i couldn't?!? 
Kat
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