[tor-talk] obfs4proxy and ports < 1024

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The IANA assignments/standard protocols per port are assigned in /etc/protocols - though no doubt you know that. Does changing the default assignments here help? 


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On March 11, 2018 1:23 PM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:

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> 
> On 11-03-18 14:16, KAction at gnu.org wrote:
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> > \[2018-03-11 09:49\] Udo van den Heuvel udovdh at xs4all.nl
> > 
> > > 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?
> 
> I am aware of the difference.
> 
> Things did work on the old (firewall) box.
> 
> Things now appear different.
> 
> User root starts the thing but of course the tor user is used for normal
> 
> operation...
> 
> Udo
> 
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