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Root is required to bind to ports lower than 1024. Normal Unix restrictions. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16564/why-are-the-first-1024-ports-restri
by simple10 9y ago
Root is required to bind to ports lower than 1024. Normal Unix restrictions.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16564/why-are-the-first-1024-ports-restricted-to-the-root-user-only https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16564/why-are-the-f...
- jklein11 9y agoIs this the only reason? It looks like the port is configurable. I would prefer to put a reverse proxy in front of an application and leave it on a port > 1024 than give an application root privileges.