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I have a server on which some services are running with a root ID (on port 80 and 443). Now, I wish to harden the server and use a non root ID for running these services. I wanted to ask if these services can be run on standard ports (1-1024) with non-root IDs; and if no, then what are the possible options I have.
usually a service like apache can start as root, and then change the user after start to be owned by a "nobody" or "apache" user etc. Under apache this is defined by the User option inside httpd.conf
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Use of Standard Ports with a non root ID
