Re: Is this mail list dead?

[Tracy R Reed <treed@ultraviolet.org>]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:39:18AM +0530, Raju Mathur wrote:
> Why would any non-system process /need/ to bind to a port below 1024?
> Or has this question already been answered?

Just because it is a system process doesn't mean it has to run as root.
That's why.

> Isn't this what should be used to grant capabilities to processes
> which need to run mainly with user privileges except for a few
> system-level access requirements?  Sendmail comes to mind :-)

Yes.

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