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Date:      Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:29:49 +0100
From:      Grzegorz Blach <magik@roorback.net>
To:        Dino Vliet <dino_vliet@yahoo.com>
Cc:        "ports@FreeBSD.org" <ports@FreeBSD.org>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: best way to bind webserver to port 80 without running as root
Message-ID:  <4F042A1D.4000403@roorback.net>
In-Reply-To: <1325671801.19145.YahooMailNeo@web113620.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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On 01/04/2012 11:10 AM, Dino Vliet wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> suddenly I'm facing this quest on freebsd 8. I need to bind my little webserver running aolserver to port 80. In the past I was always using port 8080 and had my router configured to forward requests on port 80 to the server on port 8080. However, I am planning to host my little site on a virtual server with a hosting company and figuredI can't use the workaround I always used. So my question is, how to bind aolserver to port 80 without running as root as I understood ports below 1024 can only be used by root.
> I found a sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh which enables me to set it to 0. However, I don't know what the security ramifications are of using that. Are there any other options I could consider?
>
> Thanks
> Dino
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