[tor-talk] obfs4proxy and ports < 1024

[KAction at gnu.org]

[2018-03-11 09:49] Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl>
> Hello,
> 
> On a new x86_64 firewall I notice that a freshly built obfs4proxy does
> not want to bind to a port below 1024 and becomes defunct.
> A port > 1024 works OK.
> How do I make things work for ports below 1024?

Wild guess. You are aware, that port < 1024 are so-called privilleged
ports, and require root to open (at least with Linux), do not you?