I’s standard, security behavior. You cannot open port <1024 as standard user, you need root permision on both macOS and Linux systemy. Because of security.
When someone will hack into your server, the hacker cannot kill your HTTP server and run phishing site on you domain because he need root privilages.
Armed with this knowledge I researched port forwarding and discovered pf (packet filtering) which lead me to salferrarello.com/mac-pfctl-port-f... which was the answer to my issue.
Thanks for the insight!
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I’s standard, security behavior. You cannot open port <1024 as standard user, you need root permision on both macOS and Linux systemy. Because of security.
When someone will hack into your server, the hacker cannot kill your HTTP server and run phishing site on you domain because he need root privilages.
Well, that makes sense.
Armed with this knowledge I researched port forwarding and discovered
pf(packet filtering) which lead me to salferrarello.com/mac-pfctl-port-f... which was the answer to my issue.Thanks for the insight!