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Re:Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications by anderspitman on Monday September 14, 2020 @06:30PM (#24475881)
Can the ZeroTier client create a tunnel without root access? That's the biggest weakness of WireGuard IMO. One of the things I like about ngrok is it doesn't require root.
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Re:Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications by boredpenguin on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @09:22AM (#24480887)
> Can the ZeroTier client create a tunnel without root access? That's the biggest weakness of WireGuard IMO.

No idea about ZeroTier, but you should be able to use WireGuard without root access using the userspace implementation in Go[0] (that's the one used in non-rooted Android phones, Windows, and maybe the BSDs)

[0]: https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-go/about/

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Re:Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications by anderspitman on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @12:40PM (#24483297)
I tried wireguard-go and it required root to create a tunnel. I wonder if it would be possible to adapt it to forward to a local port rather than mapping directly to a network interface.
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