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Newer page: version 6 Last edited on Friday, July 7, 2006 2:14:37 pm by CraigBox Revert
Older page: version 3 Last edited on Saturday, September 11, 2004 3:22:57 pm by CraigBox Revert
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-After asking PerryLorier about allowing a user process to bind to port 80, the response that he and JohnMcPherson gave didn't leave me feeling all too inspired about achieving the task without stress and fatigue.%%%  
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-<Bryin> Isomer: Do you know how to let user processes bind to ports < 1024%%%  
-<@Isomer> Bryin: run as root?%%%  
-<@Isomer> or give them cap_net IIRC%%%  
-<kinko> Bryin: only root can... normally your program is setuid root, and after binding to the port it immediately changes to nobody or some other normal user%%%  
-<@Isomer> Bryin: the answer is, normally it doesn't work very well at all.%%%  
-<@Isomer> as root you can give yourself the cap_net_bind privilege, then change user, keeping that privilege%%%  
-<Bryin> I'll wiki this when I find a tidy solution%%%  
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-After this dialogue on the [IRC] channel of [#wlug], I proceeded to think about cats and skinning. I then realised, "There is another solution!".  
-I had decided I was going to make the application (a [Java] server) bind to port 8080 and get the OperatingSystem to perform the legwork.  
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-Thankfully this turned out to be much easier than I expected.  
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-I configured the port forwarding with the command below (replacing content between the angled brackets with the appropriate port numbers)  
- iptables --table nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport <incoming port> -i eth0 -j REDIRECT --to-ports <local port>  
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-Then I saved the configuration so that things work after, heaven forbid, a reboot!  
- /etc/init .d/iptables save  
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-UserSubmittedNotes  
+Port forwarding is another name for PinHoling