Re: Disallowing user access to "listening" ports.

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:41:54 -0600 (CST)


On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Amanda Shuler wrote:

> I want to make it impossible for daemons to be started under any UID
> that is greater than 100, except for UID 65534.

A shortcut is to firewall ports above 1024. Most servers run below 1024
and non-root users can't start below there.

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