[tor-bugs] #7875 [Tor]: debian obfsproxies can't advertise ports under 1024

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#7875: debian obfsproxies can't advertise ports under 1024
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 Reporter:  arma        |          Owner:  asn             
     Type:  defect      |         Status:  new             
 Priority:  normal      |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Tor         |        Version:                  
 Keywords:  tor-bridge  |         Parent:                  
   Points:              |   Actualpoints:                  
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Changes (by torvlnt33r):

 * cc: torvlnt33r@… (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:1 flaushy]:
 > You can grant priviledges to do so via setcap. (included in libcap2-bin)
 > setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' /path/to/obfsproxy
 >
 > After granting this capability you are able to run obfsproxy with user
 rights on ports <1024
 >

 This is not working for me, maybe because obfsproxy is now (version 0.2.1)
 a (Python) script (see caveat 2 in the first answer on
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/413807/is-there-a-way-for-non-root-
 processes-to-bind-to-privileged-ports-1024-on-l ).

 Indeed, with a downgrade of obfsproxy to 0.1.4, it works. (But obfs3 would
 be missing).

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