Re: Port 80 ownership change to non-ROOT
- From: "Dave (from the UK)" <see-my-signature@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:13:45 +0100
under20 wrote:
Anyone knows how to change the ownership on port 80 for IBM Websphere's
http processes at the Solaris 10 server ? Currently, port 80 is owned
by root. We want to make it owned by some other non-root user. Is this
do-able ? If yes, please let us know how. If not, what is the
work-around so I could have a cleaner URL which does not include a
random preset port number.
I think there are good reasons (security) for leaving port 80 alone. If you manage to fiddle it, then any local user can start a web server on port 80. That is probably not desirable.
I would ask on the Apache web newsgroup. I know it might seem more logical to make it less privileged, but I think there are good reasons for using a privileged port. I personally don't know the implications of what you are thinking of, other than it will allow anyone to start a web server.
Remember Apache changes user to nobody pretty quickly.
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