On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:59:36AM -0700, Ben Poliakoff wrote: > Of course slapd's "-u USER" option will direct it to run as whatever > arbitrary user, but unless that user is root you'll need to run the > service on a >1024 high port. Not true. OpenLDAP will start as root, bind to the low port and switch uid/gid as specified in the command line.