Re: [tlug] Unix's 40th Birthday

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Curt Sampson writes:

 > Speaking of security, is there some simple way to convince the linux
 > kernel to let a non-root application bind to a port under 1024?

ISTR that somebody wrote a wrapper that would do basically what ssh
does: start as a privileged user, acquire resources, then drop
privileges and exec your process.  I don't know how it passed the
resources or if sockets would be one of the resources handled.

Doesn't inetd do something like that?