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plagiaristyesterday at 9:39 PM1 replyview on HN

Could you give an example system-level quadlet that accepts connections on a low port, like 80, but runs the actual container as a non-root user (and plays nice with systemd, no force kill after timeout to stop, no reporting as failed for a successful stop)?

My understanding is quadlet does not solve this, and my options are calling "systemctl --user" or "--userns auto". I would love to be wrong here.


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storystarlingyesterday at 10:00 PM

I solved the port 80 issue by adding AmbientCapabilities=CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE to the Service section of the unit file. That lets you bind privileged ports while still defining a User= line to run non-root. The lifecycle management seems solid in my experience, no force kills required.

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