On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > i am a non-root user on a debian 2.2 system and i cant write a c program to > open sockets. > > i am a non-root user on a solaris system and i am able to write c programs > that open sockets. > > is there a switch/setting somewhere on a debian system to change this? or is > root the only user allowed to create sockets on a debian system?
Anyone can create sockets, although not in the range of ports less than 1024 (this should not be different on Solaris). The problem is probably with the program. Can you send an example of the code that causes the problem, and maybe someone can find it :}
