Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie -> still no success

[Henrik Holmboe]

Malte Thoma <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

>address@hidden:~ # iptables -L
>Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
>target     prot opt source               destination
>ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp
>dpt:monotone
>
>Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
>target     prot opt source               destination
>
>Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
>target     prot opt source               destination
>ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp
>dpt:monotone

[...]

>And: If I have to open a port with iptables, I cannot run a
>monotone serve
>on a hist, where I don't have root access, or can I?

You have a default policy to accept everything, so there is no need to
open anything up since it's already wide open.

Monotone uses port 5253, which is an "unpriviledged port" and thus
does not require root privileges.

.h

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