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DannyArends / DaNode

Small and flexible web server written using the D 2.0 language
https://www.dannyarends.nl
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Not everyone have `authbind` utility in a Linux distribution #24

Closed BoQsc closed 1 year ago

BoQsc commented 2 years ago

It's true.

DannyArends commented 2 years ago

Would this work ? e.g. does Debian 10 allow you to bind ports 80/443 as a user (not sudo/root) ?

BoQsc commented 2 years ago

e.g. does Debian 10 allow you to bind ports 80/443 as a user (not sudo/root) ?

Thanks for pointing that. I'll test it out tomorrow. (For the most part I'm just a regular root user.)

DannyArends commented 2 years ago

Yeah please check, I was under the impression you either need root/sudo or authbind.

Let me know if it works, the bash scripts in the sh/ folder are just there so I can quickly shutdown and reboot the server when updating the let's encrypt certificates without having to look up the exact commands in the readme file 😆

BoQsc commented 2 years ago

I'm kind of late this time, the draft got corrupted next day and only now I had time to rewrite it. The minimal changes I've pushed: do work well on Debian 10.

What the ./sh/run does now: Launches the DaNode web server on :8080 port if the user is not with root privilegies. (Also, informs about the ways to launch the DaNode web server as Root user to allow binding to :80 port)

Starting DaNode Web Server with port :8080 as a Regular Linux User
Please switch to root user to bind to port :80
(Use 'sudo' if your Linux Distribution supports it)
(Otherwise: use 'su root' to switch to the root user)

I can try to automate it: to detect if distribution has sudo on their distribution and prompt for it.
But I think the script is already getting hard to read.

BTW: You can close this Pull Request if you think all this is just unnecessary.