Re: [Jetty-support] Permission denied using setuid on Fedora Core 4

[Greg K. <gk...@po...>]

Matthew Sheppard wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Can anyone help me out with a problem using setuid to bind to port 81 
> (or 80) on Fedora Core 4 as described 
> in http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/port80.
> 
> I'm getting a "java.net.SocketException: Permission denied" despite 
> starting as root, but removing the setuid configuration file seems to 
> fix the problem (though jetty's then running as root).
> 
> For what it's worth the same setup seems to work as expected on CentOS.

I've not experienced this before myself, but one thought I have is:

Have you got Security Enhanced Linux turned on?

Look at /etc/selinux/config to check.

Kindest regards,

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