Re: allowing ordinary users to open privileged ports

google is your friend

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=change+privileged+port+range+solaris&spell=1

I have never tried setting it lower but I know setting it higher works.

randy calma repasa 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
> 
>