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Using capabilities to bind non-root Glassfish to port 80 on Debian/Ubuntu

From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:26:17 PST

I've seen the usual list of ways to do this in various places, but I haven't seen any mention of using capabilities to accomplish this.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/intrepid/man7/capabilities.7.html

Would this work? What are the drawbacks?

For reference, here is both the usual list of methods and the suggestion to use capabilities:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/413807/is-there-a-way-for-non-root-processes-to-bind-to-privileged-ports-1024-on-linux

Thanks,
Chris
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