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Redirecting privileged ports to unprivileged ports on the same system with pf on FreeBSD

February 15, 2021cbLeave a comment

I needed to set up a daemon for a service that’s in the low 1024 ports reserved for root on FreeBSD. However, I didn’t want to run the service as root. Instead, I set up pf (the firewall in BSDs) to simply redirect the port.

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