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

Could anyone help out here?


On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote:

> Portability mainly. I don't know how to do it on Windows.
>
> Jay
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Matthias Felleisen
> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Why is this not a construct provided by the server library?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote:
>>
>>> It is also very easy to use the ffi to call setuid. Call it after  
>>> calling
>>> serve.
>>>
>>> Jay
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:36 PM, YC <yinso.chen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> A couple of possible ways that I know of -
>>>>
>>>> Use an apache mod_proxy as the frontend to web-server
>>>> 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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