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Re: slapd as non root user listening to standard ldap ports?



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.