Hello all,

How can I allow wheel users to open ports? Please help me!

Thank you!

Regards,
*Xianwen Chen <xianwen.chen@yahoo.com>

On Monday 11 January 2010 09:59:39 Xianwen Chen wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> How can I allow wheel users to open ports? Please help me!

You don't open ports. You let users run apps that open ports.

Perhaps you should state more clearly what it is that you want to accomplish.


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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the reply!

I want to run webmail* add-on on thunderbird with a wheel user. The system doesn't allow the webmail to open at port below 1024. Any open port above 1024 is not accessible. How can I solve this problem?
*Best regards,

Xianwen Chen <xianwen.chen@yahoo.com>

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Mon, January 11,
2010 9:01:45 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to allow wheel users to open ports?


On Monday 11 January 2010 09:59:39 Xianwen Chen wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> How can I allow wheel users to open ports? Please help me!

You don't open ports. You let users run apps that open ports.

Perhaps you should state more clearly what it is that you want to accomplish.


--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

> I want to run webmail add-on on thunderbird with a wheel user. The system doesn't allow the webmail to open at port below 1024. Any open port above 1024 is not accessible. How can I solve this problem?

Plenty of info via google, like
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/413807/is-there-a-way-for-non-root-processes-to-bind-to-privileged-ports-1024-on-linux/413868

Thanks for the hint Adam!
*Best regards,

Xianwen Chen <xianwen.chen@yahoo.com>

From: Adam <adam@jaftan.com.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Mon, January 11, 2010 9:20:44 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to allow wheel users to open ports?


> I want to run webmail* add-on on thunderbird with a wheel user. The system doesn't allow the webmail to open at port below 1024. Any open port above 1024 is not accessible. How can I solve this problem?

Plenty of info via google, like
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/413807/is-there-a-way-for-non-root-processes-to-bind-to-privileged-ports-1024-on-linux/413868