How do you allow non root users to bind to ports less than 1024?

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08-02-2011, 10:21 AM	#1
szboardstretcher Senior Member Registered: Aug 2006 Location: Detroit, MI Distribution: GNU/Linux systemd Posts: 4,278 Rep:	How do you allow non root users to bind to ports less than 1024? Have a program, erlang, that needs to bind to a port lower than 1024, as a non-root user. How do you allow that on a system?

08-03-2011, 09:36 AM	#2
tommylovell Member Registered: Nov 2005 Distribution: Raspbian, Debian, Ubuntu Posts: 380 Rep:	I've never done it, but this may work. Code: setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' /<path to>/erlang See 'man capabilities'. Last edited by tommylovell; 08-03-2011 at 11:06 PM.

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