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		justincormack on April 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Some thoughts on Go and Erlang You can use capabilities to allow binding to port 80 without being root.

vertex-four on April 28, 2014 | [–]

Another alternative is authbind[0], which doesn't have the same drawbacks (i.e. you can use it with scripts, and still set LD_LIBRARY_PATH).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authbind

jamra on April 28, 2014 | [–]

I've heard that before but never got around to trying it out. I should really take a look. Thanks.

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