This time, I have a couchpotato container that I want to change its default port from 5050 to port 80, so that it is as simple as http://mycouch/ to access from the local network.

Since CouchPotato is a python script, my other method of whitelisting the binary won’t work, an alternative is to use authbind to get around this by granting a user/group privileges to bind to one of those restricted ports (non-root can’t bind to ports 1024 or less).

Environment: LXC Container (Debian 9.0 Stretch) image, with couchpotato defaults running on port 5050 and systemd init script setup (couchpotato user is named gmedia)

#  groupadd -g 3200 gmedia
# useradd -u 3200 -g gmedia -M gmedia
# apt-get install authbind
# touch /etc/authbind/byport/80
# chown gmedia /etc/authbind/byport/80
# chmod 500 /etc/authbind/byport/80

Now edit the startup settings (Exec/user/group):
# nano /etc/systemd/system/couchpotato.service

Should look something like this:

[Unit]
Description=CouchPotato application instance
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/authbind --deep /opt/CouchPotatoServer/CouchPotato.py
Type=simple
User=gmedia
Group=gmedia

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Now its time to test:

# systemctl daemon-reload
# systemctl start couchpotato.service
# systemctl status couchpotato.service

Confirm all is hunky dory.

root@couchpotato:~# systemctl status couchpotato.service
● couchpotato.service - CouchPotato application instance
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/couchpotato.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2017-06-29 08:35:32 UTC; 2s ago
Main PID: 1203 (python)
Tasks: 9 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/couchpotato.service
└─1203 python /opt/CouchPotatoServer/CouchPotato.py

Jun 29 08:35:32 couchpotato systemd[1]: Started CouchPotato application instance.
root@couchpotato:~# lsof -i :80
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
python 1203 gmedia 49u IPv4 6008724 0t0 TCP *:http (LISTEN)
python 1203 gmedia 52u IPv4 6024843 0t0 TCP 192.168.200.140:http->192.168.200.5:56928 (ESTABLISHED)
root@couchpotato:~#