<div>I am not aware of a portable way of setuid on Windows, as you need to have the password of the user in order to switch to that user. The closest thing that I came across is <a href="http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/cpau/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/cpau/index.htm</a>, which encrypts the credentials so you do not need to enter it everytime. </div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Matthias Felleisen <<a href="mailto:matthias@ccs.neu.edu" target="_blank">matthias@ccs.neu.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> Could anyone help out here? <div> <div></div> <div> On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Portability mainly. I don't know how to do it on Windows. Jay On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Matthias Felleisen <<a href="mailto:matthias@ccs.neu.edu" target="_blank">matthias@ccs.neu.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> Why is this not a construct provided by the server library? On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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 <<a href="mailto:yinso.chen@gmail.com" target="_blank">yinso.chen@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> 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) - <a href="http://www.groovygrails.de/blog/groovygrails/entry/non_root_tomcat_on_port" target="_blank">http://www.groovygrails.de/blog/groovygrails/entry/non_root_tomcat_on_port</a> HTH. Cheers, yc On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Danny Yoo <<a href="mailto:dyoo@cs.wpi.edu" target="_blank">dyoo@cs.wpi.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> 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? _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: <a href="http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme" target="_blank">http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme</a> </blockquote> _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: <a href="http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme" target="_blank">http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme</a> </blockquote> -- Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay@cs.byu.edu" target="_blank">jay@cs.byu.edu</a>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University <a href="http://teammccarthy.org/jay" target="_blank">http://teammccarthy.org/jay</a> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: <a href="http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme" target="_blank">http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme</a> </blockquote> </blockquote> -- Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay@cs.byu.edu" target="_blank">jay@cs.byu.edu</a>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University <a href="http://teammccarthy.org/jay" target="_blank">http://teammccarthy.org/jay</a> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 </blockquote> </div></div></blockquote></div>