Thanks again for your help.
Nice article. Put more light on my understanding.
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Title:
bind to port less than 1024 by non-root user
To manage noti
Yes it is unfortunate. You can however achieve the partially privileged user
using pam_cap.so. I think this may be sufficient for your needs
see http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10249
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Thanks for your effort.
It is so pity that there is no such a simple way to do that. For
instance, in Solaris 10 you can launch 'usermod -K
defaultpriv=basic,net_privaddr $USER_NAME' command to get expected
behavior.
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You can use "authbind":
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/en/man1/authbind.1.html
Or, alternatively, you can use iptables and redirect the port:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port
8080
Not sure if one of those solutions is adequate for your needs.
In
If it is so, I am not able to bind on these ports at all. The only way I
found is to use setcap which also does not work in my case
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libcap2/+bug/794202).
Could you propose any other way? I need to launch an application (which binds
to low ports) with the
