[tor-relays] Who am I?

[Sean Greenslade]

On September 21, 2020 4:33:38 PM PDT, Kencf0618 at riseup.net wrote:
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>On 2020-09-20 23:35, dmz21 wrote:
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>> Please check if it works when you select a ORPort above 1023.
>> It is a common problem with Tor on Linux: it cannot open ports below
>> 1024 when running as a non-root service.
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>News to me. Any advice on how I should search for a port? I tried a few
>incremental ports and got the same result. 

This is standard behavior on basically all Linux distros. Typically apps that want to bind to a privileged port will launch as root, bind the port,  then drop to an unprivileged user. Tor has configuration options to support this. See the "User" and "KeepBindCapabilities" options.

--Sean