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Re: CF: servers on port 80
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- Subject: Re: CF: servers on port 80
- From: Christian Stieber <>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:18:56 +0100
- In-Reply-To: <>; from Mark Wedel on Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 05:38:45PM -0800
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Mark Wedel () wrote:
> Doubtful. port 80 would require crossfire to run under root (or similar)
> priveledges (getting a port below 1000 requires that). I certainly wouldn't
> trust crossfire under those circumstances.
:-) However, crossfire could still run setuid root and completely give
up the root privileges after creating the port.
Christian
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Christian Stieber http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~stieber
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