getting to www servers from inside where they have an Internal IP

[Luke-Jr]

On Monday 30 January 2006 16:32, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> This is kind of a moot point, however, as most any distribution will run
> Apache (or the webserver of your choice) with non-root permissions.  The
> server gets launched as root only so it can start listening on port 80,
> then immediately drops permissions and runs as a different user (account
> typically specific to distribution and/or local configuration...debian
> uses www-data).

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"...