Re: [PLUG] linux sw install

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 10:58:36PM -0500, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> Check out sudo. With sudo, you can let a user start up anything they need
> to as a regular user.

You don't even need sudo.  Take for example Apache.  You can install it
in your home directory, tell it to listen on, say, port 8000, and never
need root's permission.  As long as it's something that doesn't need to
listen on a particular low port (BIND would be pretty useless on some
port other than 53, for example) or access to privileged files or
syscalls (the RPC daemon suite, say), then it would work just fine, of
course.

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