[plt-scheme] anyone written a web-server app that drops privileges on Unix?

A couple of possible ways that I know of -

   1. Use an apache mod_proxy as the frontend to web-server
   2. Use iptables to redirect port 80 to another port (say 8080) -
   http://www.groovygrails.de/blog/groovygrails/entry/non_root_tomcat_on_port


HTH.  Cheers,
yc

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at cs.wpi.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm writing a small web servlet using the PLT Scheme web server
> libraries.  The servlet needs to run on port 80, but on Unix systems,
> I need to be root to bind to port 80.  I feel a little nervous when I
> have a long-running, network-accessible service, especially if it runs
> as the superuser.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how to drop
> privileges here?
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