On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:20:12PM +0100, Sean Rima wrote:
 
| For whatever reason I cannot get spamd to bind to the port as any user
| except root.

Only root can bind to ports <1024.  It looks like spamd uses 783, thus
it must be root while it binds the socket.  It can drop privileges
(setuid()) after that, though.

-D

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