CentOS - Apr 2005 - 2.6 Kernel Differences

I am running CentOS 4, and trying to get an unsupported program running on
it.  This program makes a lot of socket calls and has to run as an
unprivileged user.  I think I remember reading somewhere that the 2.6
kernel requires superuser rights for some socket operations.  Is there a
way to disable this in the 2.6 kernel?  Which ports require the superuser
rights?

Thanks,
Doug

On any kernel, only root can listen to ports < 1024 (I don't remember 
exactly)
Sophana
doug at simflex.com wrote:
>I am running CentOS 4, and trying to get an unsupported program running on
>it.  This program makes a lot of socket calls and has to run as an
>unprivileged user.  I think I remember reading somewhere that the 2.6
>kernel requires superuser rights for some socket operations.  Is there a
>way to disable this in the 2.6 kernel?  Which ports require the superuser
>rights?
>
>Thanks,
>Doug
>
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