[erlang-questions] Priviliged ports and effective UID

[mats cronqvist]

"Kevin" <
> writes:

> Hello, I can't find an answer to this anywhere.  In erlang how does
> one deal with the problem of starting erlang as root, binding to a
> privileged port, and then change the effective user id to something
> other than root.

  afaik, the same way you deal with it in all other contexts; port
forwarding in iptables.

  mats