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

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