Re: CF: servers on port 80

[Christian Stieber <stieber@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>]

Mark Wedel (mark@icp.siemens.com) wrote:

>  Doubtful.  port 80 would require crossfire to run under root (or similar)
> priveledges (getting a port below 1000 requires that).  I certainly wouldn't
> trust crossfire under those circumstances.

:-) However, crossfire could still run setuid root and completely give
up the root privileges after creating the port.

Christian


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