Ondřej Surý writes ("Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit"):
> On 9 Aug 2019, at 09:22, Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> > Actually as a user of my services I do not even notice any difference, so
> > for me it is: What is actually the point of starting them on demand?
>
> Unprivileged access to port < 1024. The socket-activated services can start
> as user since the port binding is done by the systemd, not the daemon.
This is a good reason to use inetd or socket activation, indeed.
But there are other ways. Many traditional daemons can start as root
and drop privileges. And of course there is authbind.[1]
Ian.
[1] which I wrote and maintain, insofar as maintenance is needed.
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