Bnc on port 443

Lucif3r_no · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 1

I'm haveing trouble setting up a bnc on port 443 on my gentoo.
I know that all the ports below 1024 is reserved to root.
But I need a bnc on port 443 and is wondering if there is any way to bypass this setting or any way to "fool" the box.

Lucif3r

tagwar · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:12 pm Post subject: ssh or iptables

damn, as it seems, every second answer i write here is about ssh or iptables... funny..

okay.. you can either use ssh to set up a "tunnel" from your machine's port 443 to port foo. this would be something like "ssh -g -L 443:127.0.0.1:foo localhost". You have to ssh as root tho...

or use a DNAT iptables rule, so packets to port 443 are DNATed to port foo on your box.

This of course also needs root privilege, so you wont be able to go completely without root..

At least as far as I know...

Tom