Subj : Re: Really in need of help...
To   : BadAssBradders
From : paulie420
Date : Mon Dec 05 2022 04:54 pm

 Ba> When you say "run Mystic" do you mean the command within the terminal
 Ba> that launches my server? 
 Ba> Because, if I run:-
 Ba> 
 Ba> "./ mystic -server"
 Ba> Instead of...
 Ba> "sudo ./ mystic -server"
 Ba> 
 Ba> I get these errors..
 Ba> TELNET unable to open IPV4 Port Error -1 (13)
 Ba> TELNET unable to open IPV6 Port Error -1 (13)

So Linux won't let non-sudo users to bind to ports under 1024. Thats why you see a lot of bbSes w/ ports like :1337, or whatever... however you can get around that. Hes a writeup, and there are many others out there...

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/bind-port-number-less-1024-non-root-access/



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