Source: privbind Section: utils Priority: extra Maintainer: Shachar Shemesh Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), autotools-dev Standards-Version: 3.8.4.0 Homepage: http://privbind.sourceforge.net/ Package: privbind Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: Allow unprivileged apps to bind to a privileged port Privbind is a utility that allows running non-root applications, only giving them one root privilege - binding to low (<1024) ports. The aim is similar, though using a completely different method, to "authbind". . Privbind is a completely user space solution. It has no SUID executables, and has to be started by a root user instead. . Privbind is useful for cases where there is a need to run an untrusted program that needs to bind to a low port, but requires no other root privilege. It is also useful if a daemon has no capability to drop privileges itself.