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CentOS 7: bind to privileged port without root access

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020

The error I faced:

ERROR:core:tcp_init_listener: bind(32, 0x7f72fe4879ac, 16) on 11.22.33.44:443 : Permission denied
ERROR:core:trans_init_all_listeners: failed to init listener [11.22.33.44], proto wss
ERROR:core:main: failed to init all SIP listeners, aborting

The service could not start neither manually (opensips -f /path/to/cfg) nor via SystemD. The checking (opensips -C -f /path/to/cfg) of config file showed no errors.

Use ‘setcap’ command.

Example for OpenSIPS running as opensips:opensips.

How I fixed:

setcap CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE=+eip /usr/sbin/opensips