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#2 Re: Running network services as a non-root user. Posted by Steve (212.20.xx.xx) on Wed 19 Apr 2006 at 12:41 The assumption is that if you're using sudo you're giving control of the system installation of a service - such as Apache. Whereas if you're using an authbind, or iptables, solution it is more natural to have a local copy the user has in their own home directory - since they still need to edit configuration files, etc. I guess you could use any solution in either approach though. That is just the way I was thinking about it. Steve
The assumption is that if you're using sudo you're giving control of the system installation of a service - such as Apache.
Whereas if you're using an authbind, or iptables, solution it is more natural to have a local copy the user has in their own home directory - since they still need to edit configuration files, etc.
I guess you could use any solution in either approach though. That is just the way I was thinking about it.
Steve
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