[erlang-questions] Is there a way to change the privileges of a working program?

[Claes Wikstrom]

Sergey Samokhin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Often we have to run some kinds of our erlang programs with root
> privileges, e.g. to allow them to bind a system port (< 1024). It is
> quite dangerous, because once your web-server has been hacked by a bad
> guy, the whole system can be affected. I was very impressed to know
> that some servers drop root priveleges right after port binding.
> 
> Is there a way which will help me to change the privileges of a
> running program to the minimum after a system port has been bound?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

I write on this topic at:


http://yaws.hyber.org/privbind.yaws

/klacke