[tor-relays] Problems with Debian package and low ports

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Wed Feb 13 20:24:03 UTC 2013


> Tor has already changed to a non-privileged user, but you are trying to bind
> on ports that only root is allowed to bind on.
>
> Two solutions:
>
> 1) Run tor as root (really, a bad idea)
> 2) Bind to other ports than 80 and 443.

3) Remap the ports outside the restricted range using your packet filter.
4) Hack the port range check out of the kernel and recompile.


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