Re: Running Sshd as non-root

["Arturo \"Buanzo\" Busleiman" <buanzo () buanzo com ar>]

You will have to set its port to a value over 1023. Only uid 0 can open
ports below 1024.

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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Vineet Mehta wrote:

> I was trying to make my sshd more secure by running it on non-root user.
> Can anyone help me out with it? Has anyone done that before?
>
> I tried putting sudo for "service" command, and even "chown user:
> /etc/init.d/sshd" but it is not doing it.
>
> Any help appretiated  !!!
> Regards,
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> Vineet Mehta
> Network Security Consultant
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