On 1/30/06, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:

But there is always a possibility of a bug or exploit prior to dropping root
privs... One thing that has always seems missing is the ability to set port
"owners"...

Huh? Either you set up a daemon to listen on a port directly, or configure inetd to handle it. In either case, you control the userid of the daemon that 'owns' the port.