diff -ur old-esd/esd.c esound-0.2.20/esd.c
--- old-esd/esd.c	Mon Oct  2 16:39:17 2000
+++ esound-0.2.20/esd.c	Wed Nov  1 12:16:16 2000
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@
 time_t esd_last_activity = 0;	/* seconds since last activity */
 int esd_on_autostandby = 0;	/* set when auto paused for auto reawaken */
 
-int esd_use_tcpip = 0;          /* use tcp/ip sockets instead of unix domain */
+int esd_use_tcpip = 1;          /* use tcp/ip sockets instead of unix domain */
 int esd_terminate = 0;          /* terminate after the last client exits */
-int esd_public = 0;             /* allow connects from hosts other than localhost */
+int esd_public = 1;             /* allow connects from hosts other than localhost */
 int esd_spawnpid = 0;           /* The PID of the process that spawned us (for use by esdlib only) */
 
 /*******************************************************************/
@@ -632,6 +632,13 @@
     signal( SIGTERM, clean_exit );	/* for default kill */
     signal( SIGPIPE, reset_signal );	/* for closed rec/mon clients */
     signal( SIGHUP, reset_daemon );	/* kill -HUP clear ownership */
+	if(!geteuid()) {
+		if (chroot("/dev")) exit(1);
+		if (chdir("/")) exit(1);
+		if (setgid(99)) exit(1);
+		if (setuid(99)) exit(1);
+		if (daemon(0,0)) fprintf(stderr,"failed to daemonize :(\n");
+	};
 
     /* send some sine waves just to check the sound connection */
     i = 0;