Subj : Port Permissions
To   : Mickey
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Jan 26 2025 21:16:06

  Re: Port Permissions
  By: Mickey to All on Sun Jan 26 2025 07:10 pm

 > I have just installed 3.20c on a Pi. The build went alone nicely and the
 > system is mostly working. My issue:
 >
 > I execute sbbs with sudo and (according to what I've read) then hand access
 > back to sbbs:sbbs after all the ports are loaded. This works great until
 > ports 11 and 18 are called during operation and of course, access is denied.

Why would access be denied?

Rather than using sudo, consider using setcap instead:
https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:linux_non-root

 > This does'nt seem to affect the bbs too much but I'd like to correct it (if
 > I can).
 >
 > ufw is off and these ports are set-up to forward to the Pi. How do I fix
 > this?

Most of the default TCP ports that sbbs tries to bind are privileged (i.e. < 1024), so I'm not clear why ports 11 and 18 would be special. Maybe they're just already bound to other services?

https://wiki.synchro.net/faq:tcpip#bind
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