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+title: setcap-netbind
+homepage: https://github.com/webinstall/webi-installers/setcap-netbind/README.md
+tagline: |
+  setcap-netbind: Give a binary the ability to bind to privileged ports.
+---
+
+setcap-netbind will grant the specified program the ability to listen on
+privileged ports, such as 80 (http) and 443 (https) without root privileges or
+sudo. It seeks out the specified binary in your path and reads down symlinks to
+make usage as painless as possible.
+
+## Cheat Sheet
+
+```bash
+sudo setcap-netbind node
+```
+
+This is the same as running the full command:
+
+```bash
+sudo setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' $(readlink -f $(which node))
+```