[JDEV] Re: [jadmin] [jadmin]Port access below 1024

[Justin Georgeson]

It's not so much the ownership, it's that the pid in the pidfile is 
wrong. I couldn't get the pidfile to be written after the fork. Even on 
systems that have a tool to kill all processes with a given name 
(killall jabberd on RedHat for example), that's not always viable, as 
you might have multiple instances and only want to stop one.

Jonathan Augenstine wrote:
>>only answer I was given was to have my firewall forward the 
>>priviledged 
>>port to the unpriviledged port jabber is running on.
> 
> If I had that option available we would not be having this exchange.
> Unfortunately.
> 
> Can you clarify what the ramifications are of the problem you describe
> below.  I understand that the pid file is created by root and as a
> consequence the specified user account is unable to access the pid file.
> How does this impact?
> 
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Justin Georgeson [mailto:jgeorgeson at unboundtech.com] 
>>Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 11:55 AM
>>To: jadmin at jabber.org
>>Subject: Re: [jadmin] [jadmin]
>>
>>
>>Using the -B command line options you can specify what user 
>>to run as. I 
>>have successfully reordered the code to bind to the port 
>>before calling 
>>setuid/setgid and forking. The problem is I have been unsuccessful 
>>getting all this done before writing the pidfile, so I end up witha 
>>pidfile with the wrong pid and the process owner can't read. 
>>I've posted 
>>to several lists (this one, jdev, and 
>>jabberd at jabberstudio.org) and the 
>>only answer I was given was to have my firewall forward the 
>>priviledged 
>>port to the unpriviledged port jabber is running on.
>>
>>Jonathan Augenstine wrote:
>>
>>>I have a question on running Jabber on non-standard ports.  Does 
>>>anyone have documentation or notes on how to run Jabber on 
>>
>>ports below 
>>
>>>1024 but not run Jabber as root?
>>>
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>>
>>
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Justin Georgeson
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