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

[Paul Mineiro]

For completeness, one solution not mentioned is to use a reverse proxy
which is designed to bind the port and then drop privileges, e.g., nginx.

-- p

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Claes Wikstrom wrote:

> 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
>
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