Re: allowing ordinary users to open privileged ports

>         Has anyone in the list successfully tried allowing ordinary
>users to open privileged (< 1024) ports?

I've lost track of the application requirements so this may be off base.... 
Any application run out of /etc/inetd.conf can be configured to serve a 
privileged port and run as an unprivileged user. e.g.,

finger        stream  tcp6    nowait  nobody  /usr/sbin/in.fingerd 
in.fingerd

If this fits it's the simple solution.