Re: allowing ordinary users to open privileged ports

man ndd. It allows you to lower priviledges for a range of ports (TCP
and/or UDP).


On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:40:55 +0800, randy calma repasa
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>        Has anyone in the list successfully tried allowing ordinary
> users to open privileged (< 1024) ports? We have a solaris 8 on sparc
> machine running an (java) application that normally uses ports > 1024;
> however a client requested the application to use privileged ports
> instead.
> 
>        This resulted in the application failing to start as the port
> that the application was trying to bind to was < 1024. I've looked for
> methods/workarounds to allow this but have so far come up empty.
> 
>        I would appreciate any experiences or links that the list could
> point me to.
> 
>        Thank you very much and best regards.
> 
> Randy
> 
>