Is there a way for non-root processes to bind to “privileged” ports on Linux?

Question

It\'s very annoying to have this limitation on my development box, when there won\'t ever be any users other than me.

I\'m aware of the standard workarounds, but non

Answer 1

You can setup a local SSH tunnel, eg if you want port 80 to hit your app bound to 3000:

sudo ssh $USERNAME@localhost -L 80:localhost:3000 -N

This has the advantage of working with script servers, and being very simple.