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Thanks both, I'll look into doing this. (forgot to login before i posted)
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Re: Re: Re: Change UID of executing POE TCP server
by dataDrone (Acolyte) on Jun 25, 2003 at 04:14 UTC
    Or you could just use a higher port like say... 8080 or was it 8008, and that way you wouldn't even need to launch your server task as root. Any one here remember what port EOTL mud used? My fav back in the day.

      To complement that, run a port-forwarder on port 23 from tcpserver or inetd. netcat is particularly good for this sort of thing.

      The only disadvantage is that you'll lose the incoming IP address of your clients.