Re: [Summary-Talk] running summary on port 80 as other than root

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Summary does not currently have this capability. I will add your request 
to the wish list.

One possible work around is to proxy Summary running on a high port 
number through another server running on port 80. This is easy to do with 
Apache for example.

Jason


On 6/11/03 4:50 PM Ari Davidow (ari.davidow@tufts.edu) wrote:

>Is there any way to configure summary so that it is started as root (so 
>that it can run on port 80), but then it runs as some other user 
>(similar to how we configure apache to run as, say, "webserve" or even 
>"nobody")? We want to support those of our users who are behind 
>firewalls, but we don't want to go crazy and set up a proxy server just 
>for this one issue.
>
>It is easy enough to set the user launching the application be whomever 
>we choose, but only if the port used is above 1024 (only root can set 
>applications to use ports under 1024). But if we have root running the 
>application, then there is a security issue that we're trying to avoid.

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