UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Of course... many software cheat when they pretend they dont have to be root... If you look carefully they would have a binary with owner is root... and setuid set... and to get that they will say at install execute "something" as root to finalize the installation...
You above program works because you did exactly that...
Try as a user lambda to compile and execute the code... does it still work? did it claim to execute something as root in order to complete?...
Lets be clear I am talking of programs that at one point need root privileges...

hi

completely in line with what you are saying.
and its true that it asks for us to be in root to compile and/or install the binaries and the program itself. And I'm down with that. lets compile and install the same in root mode.
but when I run it, it shud be running in the user mode. I'm just trying to come up with a scheme where in if I ps -eaf | grep stunnel .. teh output shud display running in usermode ,not in root .
no luck so far .

Opening ports <1024 takes root privileges.