[s7mx1]

I got xbmc running as non root user. Everything works fine except that webserver will not start even though I set the correct posix capabilities. I assigned
cap_net_admin,cap_net_bind_service,cap_net_raw to xbmc.bin binary and according to http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/onli...ies.7.html you should be able to bind to ports less than 1024. However it looks like xbmc checks for user id only and it now errors at

Code:

Cannot start Web Server as port is smaller than 1024 and user is not root

Also does "--standalone" works for non-root user with cap_net_admin set?

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Ticket created http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/13061

[Montellese]

Yes XBMC just checks for the user id. You do know you can change the port where XBMC will publish the webserver?

[s7mx1]

Yes XBMC just checks for the user id. You do know you can change the port where XBMC will publish the webserver?

Yes I fully aware that but setcap is able to let unprivileged user to bind port below 1024. I have created a github issue as well.

Otherwise xbmc is kind of forcing dedicated xbmc box to run as root which is not ideal.