[schooltool-dev] running on port 80

[Brian Sutherland]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 09:46:25AM -0400, Tom Hoffman wrote:
> This is primarily directed at jinty... How does one make SchoolTool
> run on port 80 now in the .deb packages.  Presumably starting as root
> and switching to a non-privileged user a'la Apache?

How impervious is the schooltool HTTP server to malformed HTTP requests?

I don't know. So I would almost always run SchoolTool behind Apache or
Squid.

But, if you really want to, dropping privileges is the right way. AFAIKR
Paste can do that, but I'm not sure how to work it into the config file.

> 
> --Tom
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Brian Sutherland