[tor-relays] Relay configuration issue "Could not bind to 0.0.0.0:443: Permission denied"

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Fri Jan 22 09:36:12 UTC 2016


On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 01:26:05AM +0100, AJ NOURI wrote:
> *sudo service tor reload*
> 
>      * Reloading tor daemon configuration...      [fail]
> 
> >     Jan 08 12:31:58.000 [notice] Received reload signal (hup). Reloading
> > config and resetting internal state.
> >     Jan 08 12:31:58.000 [warn] **Could not bind to 0.0.0.0:443:
> > Permission denied**

See
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/918
for an explanation of why this happens.

The easy fix is to pick an ORPort above 1024.

--Roger



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