[jadmin] jabber server fails to start when configured for ports below 1024 (debian sarge)

[Matthias Wimmer]

oleg rodionov schrieb:
>> Are you running Jabber as Admin or a more restricted account?
> 
> I am running it as root

I want to add, that you are even not allowed to use the "-u" switch, if 
you want to bind to an administrative port. Therefore the jabberd 
process will really run als the root user, which is a very bad thing.

As it had been already suggested: bind jabberd to its standard port 5222 
and use iptables to redirect incoming traffic on port 110 to this port.

The iptables command for this is:

iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 110 -j REDIRECT --to-port 5223



Tot kijk
     Matthias
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 4263 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Url : http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/jadmin/attachments/20060816/4d819c86/smime-0004.bin