> No.  Inetd is root to bind to low port numbers (that's a separate 
> flame)

It could drop the priviledge after the bind...

> and to be able to run different applications as different (often 
> non-root) users.

actually it could (probably) manage to hide its 'rootness' in the
saved uid - at least most of the time.


Has anyone considered splitting 'root privilege' into a lot of separate
bits that can be inherited separately?  (or is it too SYSV)


	David

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