Cannot get ympd to run under unprivileged user

[realG]

Hi. First off, let me say your web gui is killer, beautiful design and great layout!

I've got it running on Raspbian, but cannot seem to get it to run under an unprivileged user. Under root it works great

$ sudo ./ympd --webport 80
MPD Connecting to 127.0.0.1:6600
MPD connected.

but sudo ./ympd --user pi --webport 80 produces no output on the command line. I can see the process is created

$ ps aux | grep ympd
pi 5697 79.8  0.1   2940   796 ?        R    00:45   1:01 /usr/bin/ympd --user pi --webport 80

but the web interface is not reachable. Am I doing something dumb? Any help is greatly appreciated!

[ajs124]

This is not a problem with ympd. You just can't bind to such low ports as an unprivileged user. I didn't verify it, but if I recally correctly it's nothing below 1024.

[realG]

Ah, so I was indeed being dumb. Changed to -webport 8080 and works like a charm. Thanks!

[notandy]

Hi, indeed as user you cannot bind to ports below 1024. But especially for that case I added the "drop privileges" feature, so ympd acquires the port as root and does setuid(user) to drop priviliges. sudo ./ympd --user pi --webport 80 should work.
I tested it, but it doesn't work :-(

Funny, this works for me:

sudo ./ympd --webport 80 --user pi

@realG could you test this?

I will investigate this bug, the order of the options should not affect anything.

[realG]

Yup, same for me, sudo ./ympd --webport 80 --user pi works!