How to allow non-root user to listen on privileged port?

Posted by Dan Goldburt on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Dan Goldburt
Published on 2010-04-17T20:58:24Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 21:03 UTC
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I want syslog to run as a non-root user on my linux box. That makes it impossible for it to bind to port 514 - because that's a privileged port. Is there any way I can grant non-admin user "foo" the ability to listen on port 514?

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