> What word do you suggest I use to describe configuring a program to have access to more sockets?
Like I said, "terrifying" is a good one. Reserving blocks of sockets in that sort of size is notably odd and from a performance standpoint it's pretty hard to argue that it's necessary.
> In daemon mode, G-WAN drops privileges to the user and group of your choosing.
I would assume that it would setuid down to something sane, sure, but that's not the WTF part: it's that I'm supposed to run closed-source code by some guy as root on my server machines.