On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:00:10AM +0100, Krist van Besien wrote: > > Sounds like a task for "sudo". > > Another option is making the httpd executable suid root.
Ouch. Starting a webserver on port 80 as a normal user is not a good thing. Sudo helps to limit the security breach somewhat if you really have to. Setting the suid flag is a lot worse securitywise. A lot. regs, Christian > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bremgarten b. Bern, Switzerland Bern, Switzerland --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]