* JW;
Hello,
Doubtless this information exists on the www but google isn't being friendly today.
look for "capabilities"
I have a special situation where it would be *extremely* good if users could open their own ports < 1024. SMTP and pop3, at the very least - FTP would be good too. I was thinking, surely there would be a way to patch the kernel to allow this sort of activity. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?
Any idea where I could find information about this short of bugging lkml (which I really don't want to do)?
It looks to me this is what you want http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/kernel-2.2/capfaq-... Compartnet (Marc's IMO excellent tool) uses capabilities HTH -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx