[tac_plus] Questions about a simple setup.

[Alan McKinnon]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:24:32 +0100 (CET)
"Kiss Gabor (Bitman)" <kissg at ssg.ki.iif.hu> wrote:

> > * I will have the two tac_plus servers behind a firewall only
> > allowing port 49. 
> > * I am running as a non-root user. 
> 
> Stop the press.
> Ports numbers under 1024 (aka well known ports) can be opened by root
> only.

tac_plus starts as root and drops privs later the same way apache does

configure the build system like so to do it:

./configure --with-userid=UID --with-groupid=GID



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Alan McKinnnon
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