Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:16:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just a wild idea Message-ID: <200209271116.g8RBGA7w034081@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20020922161453.A13323@psconsult.nl>
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Sorry for the late reply (I don't skim through the hackers list very often). Paul Schenkeveld <fb-hackers@psconsult.nl> wrote: > For many applications however, for example lpd, named, sendmail, > tac_plus and others, it would be more than good enough to run that > program as a normal, non-root user provided there is a way to bind > to that single low TCP and/or UDP port that the program needs access > to. I haven't actually tried this, but shouldn't it be possible to use IPFW's forwarding feature for that? For example, let sendmail run on port 2500 and then add ipfw fwd rules to forward between ports 2500 and 25. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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