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

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

Matthew Sheppard wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> Have you got Security Enhanced Linux turned on?
>>
>> Look at /etc/selinux/config to check.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion Greg.
> 
> Unfortunately it looks like SELinux is already disabled on the machine I was
> using, so I'm assuming the problem is elsewhere.
> 
> If it helps at all, I've now got a report of the same behaviour under Fedora
> Core 5 (again with SELinux disabled).

Is is acceptable to you to run bound to a non-privileged port and use 
iptables to redirect from 81 to (say) 8081 ?

I can give you some iptables rules to do this if you want them ...

Kindest regards,

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