All, I was trying to setup jetty on port 80 but its giving exception saying permission denied as below. I have setup jetty to work with setuid and configured start.ini as follows: OPTIONS=Server,jsp,jmx,resources,websocket,ext,plus,annotations,jta,jdbc,setuid (below as first configuration file in start.ini) etc/jetty-setuid.xml and jetty-setuid.xml file with username and group name of non root user. 2012-07-03 15:29:02.411:INFO:oejdp.ScanningAppProvider:Deployment monitor /opt/jetty-hightide-8.1.3.v20120416/contexts at interval 1 2012-07-03 15:29:02.454:WARN:oejuc.AbstractLifeCycle:FAILED [email protected]:80: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied java.net.SocketException: Permission denied at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Native Method) at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:126) at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:59) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.nio.SelectChannelConnector.open(SelectChannelConnector.java:182) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractConnector.doStart(AbstractConnector.java:311) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.nio.SelectChannelConnector.doStart(SelectChannelConnector.java:260) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:59) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:273) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:59) at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration$1.run(XmlConfiguration.java:1215) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration.main(XmlConfiguration.java:1138) 2012-07-03 15:29:02.455:WARN:oejuc.AbstractLifeCycle:FAILED org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server@66da9ea4: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied java.net.SocketException: Permission denied