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A repository of notes and comments that will eventually make their way into the documentation. Please treat the information here with caution, it has often not been verified.
Where can I learn more about SSL?
Converting a JSSE Keystore to OpenSSL
How do I handle port 80 and root issues on Linux?When using the 2.6 Linux kernel or RedHat 9.0, you can use the standard user-name configuration. On older Linux versions, you'll need to use a bit of trickery. You can use kernel based port forwarding. This feature is not available for all flavours of Unix, but at least for recent Linux kernels (2.4) it works fine. Here is a very basic example for iptables in a static environment (static means that the example does not deal with ppp connections properly, you might have to add something similar to your ip-up/down scripts). iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -d localhost -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080 iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -d your hostname -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d your hostname -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080 ipchains (for Linux 2.2. kernels) should work similar - it might also be possible to map the port directly inside your firewall.
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