[icecast] icecast on port 80 NOT as root

[Alan Bushnell]

You can use firewall software (iptables, netfilter, etc) to redirect
incoming requests to port 80 to an unprivileged port where you have
icecast running on the same host.

alan

<p>On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 19:33, Bryan Jay Miller wrote:
> This may seem simple but I've looked all over and come up with nothing.
> I'm interested in running Icecast 1.3.12 on port 80 to get around the
> firewall issue. Obviously it's not prudent to run Icecast at root so I'm
> wondering is there any way to safely run Icecast on port 80 using either
> setuid or port redirection? Has anyone accomplished this and if so,
> how'd you do it?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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