Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755648AbXK3JQY (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:16:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757674AbXK3JPz (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:15:55 -0500 Received: from mail.univits.se ([212.247.11.167]:43949 "EHLO mail.univits.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756427AbXK3JPy (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:15:54 -0500 Message-ID: <474FD4C1.4030906@univits.com> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:15:45 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWlrYWVsIFN0w6VsZGFs?= Organization: Univits User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Possibility to adjust the only-root-can-bind-to-port-under-1024 limit References: <4742B3A3.2050103@univits.com> <20071120155303.76f234ec@astralstorm.puszkin.org> <474A975A.8020302@univits.com> <474C9D6A.4000505@cfl.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <474C9D6A.4000505@cfl.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 695 Lines: 19 Phillip Susi skrev: > Mikael Ståldal wrote: >> And how do you protect ports >1024 from any user binding to them? > > You prevent users from binding to those ports by only giving > applications that need to the capability, and only letting the users > that need to have execute permission to those programs. I think you misunderstood my question. How do you protect ports greater than 1024 from any user binding to them? E.g. port 1080. /Mikael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/