Petri Lehtinen <pe...@digip.org> added the comment: The patch looks good to me and fixes the problem. To reproduce, try this:
sudo python -m smtpd 127.0.0.1:25 It raises a "socket.error: [Errno 13] Permission denied" when trying to bind to the privileged port. Attached a refreshed the patch that applies cleanly on top of current 2.7 branch. ---------- nosy: +petri.lehtinen versions: -Python 3.1 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23481/smtpd.py-0.2-setuid-fix_v2.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9168> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com