<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1479" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=223240501-26012005>Hello All,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=223240501-26012005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=223240501-26012005>I have a Red Hat AS 3 box on a Dell 2650 and have installed Websphere 5.1. I'm trying to avoid running WAS as <EM>root</EM> and would like to utilize port 80/443 as a standard system or application user. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=223240501-26012005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=223240501-26012005>Has anyone been able to configure the new kernel to allow regular users to bind to specific ports below 1024?</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=223240501-26012005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=223240501-26012005>I know of several work arounds' "netfilter and iptables" but would prefer not to use these.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=223240501-26012005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=223240501-26012005>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><B><I><FONT size=5>Michael Sullivan</FONT></I></B></SPAN> <BR><EM>Registered Linux User #354380</EM></P></BODY></HTML>