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Re: Running kdc as unprivileged user

To: Yury Arkady Sobolev <yury@OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Re: Running kdc as unprivileged user
From: Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:05:51 -0800
Cc: heimdal-discuss@sics.se
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Yury Arkady Sobolev wrote:
> Can the Kerberos daemons (kdc, kadmin) be run as an unprivileged user? I
> do not see why not, but I have not found anyone doing this.
>
> -Yury
>
>   
The KDC must be privileged to listen on port 88. If you use some other 
port number, perhaps you can avoid that requirement.

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