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Re: Ports 443 & 80



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Nathaniel Dube wrote:
> On Sunday 18 May 2008 12:50:27 pm morphium wrote:
>> why don't you set ORListenAddress to 0.0.0.0:443 and don't do anything
>> with your firewall?
> I'm running Linux.  You can only open certain lower ports (such as 80 & 443) 
> in root.  And it's bad to run tor as root.
> 

"Normally," this is the case - however, a lot of scripts used for
running Tor as a daemon, allow for some user-change gymnastics. These
not allow Tor to listen on privileged ports, while running it as a
non-privileged user.

That being said, I use a redirect at the firewall, also.

- --
F. Fox
AAS, CompTIA A+/Network+/Security+
Owner of Tor node "kitsune"
http://fenrisfox.livejournal.com

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