iptables fubared?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 12:50:30 -0600,
   Patrick Kobly <patrick at kobly.com> wrote:
>He's running JBoss...  Java apps won't drop privs. Non-root can't bind to 80, so he gets JBoss to bind to 8080 then redirects.

Yuck. There are other ways to do that. I think the systemd route is probably 
the way to do it in current Fedora:
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.socket.html

But inetd or tcp-server (and probably other things) could also be used.