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

Answer at 2015/Sep:

ip6tables now supports IPV6 NAT: http://www.netfilter.org/projects/iptables/files/changes-iptables-1.4.17.txt

You will need kernel 3.7+

Proof:

[09:09:23] root@X:~ ip6tables -t nat -vnL
Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
    0     0 REDIRECT   tcp      eth0   *       ::/0                 ::/0                 tcp dpt:80 redir ports 8080
    0     0 REDIRECT   tcp      eth0   *       ::/0                 ::/0                 tcp dpt:443 redir ports 1443

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 6148 packets, 534K bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination

Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT 6148 packets, 534K bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination