Icecast - Sep 2004 - Problem One: Running Icecast on Port 80..

On 30-Sep-04, at 5:24 PM, Karl Heyes wrote:
>
>> 	WARNING: You should not run icecast2 as root
>> 	Use the changeowner directive in the config file
>
> http://www.icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.0.2/ 
> icecast2_config_file.html#security
>
> As with apache, you start as root then it changes to run as another
> user, just state the user/group
Right, so my icecast.xml file says:

     <security>
         <chroot>0</chroot>

         <changeowner>
             <user>root</user>
             <group>root</group>
         </changeowner>

     </security>

... and here's what happens when I execute:

[root@pamplona bin]# Changed groupid to 0.
Changed userid to 0.
WARNING: You should not run icecast2 as root
Use the changeowner directive in the config file

-Ian.

I've got a redhat linux 9.0 box and I've made sure Apache is out of the 
way, so that I can do what I really want to do, which is to run Icecast 
on port 80 of the server, so listeners can grab the stream even through 
the toughest firewall.   I have been wrestling with this for a number 
of hours, consulted a few experts, and am coming up zilch.

Theoretically, I should be able to just run Icecast on Port 80 by 
specifying Port 80 in the icecast.xml file like so:

   <listen-socket>
         <port>80</port>
   </listen-socket>

...but this is the error I get:

	Could not create listener socket on port 80
	Server startup failed. Exiting

I was told that I should try running icecast as root.  Try doing that, 
and you get an error:

	WARNING: You should not run icecast2 as root
	Use the changeowner directive in the config file

Have googled for any sort of step-by-step instructions for something 
even a little bit similar to this, but to no avail.

-Ian.

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 01:09, Ian Andrew Bell wrote:

...
> Theoretically, I should be able to just run Icecast on Port 80 by 
> specifying Port 80 in the icecast.xml file like so:
> 
>    <listen-socket>
>          <port>80</port>
>    </listen-socket>
> 
> ...but this is the error I get:
> 
> 	Could not create listener socket on port 80
> 	Server startup failed. Exiting
> 
> I was told that I should try running icecast as root.  Try doing that, 
> and you get an error:
listening on ports < 1024 requires root privileges
> 	WARNING: You should not run icecast2 as root
> 	Use the changeowner directive in the config file
http://www.icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.0.2/icecast2_config_file.html#security

As with apache, you start as root then it changes to run as another
user, just state the user/group

karl.