Kerberos as non-root

[Sam Hartman]

>>>>> "David" == David E Cross <crossd at cs.rpi.edu> writes:

    David> I am considering making a very *very* simple change to the
    David> KDC/kadmind as follows: start as root, bind any resources
    David> (files, network ports, etc).


This at firsct glance seems like a reasonable thing to want to do.
You'd probably want to make it configurable at runtime.  You should
also be aware that there are several situations where people run KDCs
as non-root when not using privileged ports--often for debugging.
Please do not break this.