[Zope] Zope server cant bind port 80

Wayne Pascoe wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:27:30 +0000


On 13/3/02 1:24 pm, "Stanislav Marszalek" <smarszalek@digi-trade.cz> wrote:

> Hi,
> When starting Zope server on port 80 under user "zope", sever fails with
> message "fail to bind port 80 - dont have permissions." When running under
> user "root", it is ok. When trying start zope server on port 8080,
> everything is ok. So just cant run on port 80 because of permissions but
> why?

Generally only root can bind to ports lower than 1024. If you want user zope
to be able to, you will need to set the suid bit on the binary and make it
owned by root.


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