[Twisted-Python] Switch to a different uid/gid after binding reserved ports

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 11:10:00 +0100
"Richard Townsend" <richard at starfighter.freeuk.com> wrote:

> I want it to listen on reserved port 80, and then switch to a
> different uid/gid but it's not clear to me how to do this. Could
> someone please explain what the necessary steps should be?

At a guess, set uid and gid attributes on the Application instance, then
run() it as root.

> (Note: I can't use twistd because it would not compatible with our
> system architecture).

The sounds very unlikely. Are you aware of the "twistd -y" option?


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