# Ignition-Gateway.service failed

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-gateway-service-failed/83652>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 1, 2024, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-gateway-service-failed/83652 "2024-01-01T12:58:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-gateway-service-failed/83652/2 "2024-01-01T13:21:27Z")

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Any port under 1024 on Linux is reserved for root.

Some suggestions to overcome this, in this thread:

> [@Runas different user? Only get ignition working as root](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/runas-different-user-only-get-ignition-working-as-root/11396):
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> I have 7.8.2 install on RedHat/Oracle 7.2 with Oracle java 1.8.0\_73 I created user account and group 'ignition' and set the ignition.sh to "RUN\_AS\_USER=ignition", everything worked fine. But we won't use the default SSL port of 8043, so I used the guc command to change the SSL port (./gwcmd --sslport 443). Now ignition will NOT run at all without changing the runasuser to "root". In the log I get netstat -tulpn shows me that no, port 443 is not in use. I did come across this - [support.indu…](https://support.inductiveautomation.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/96/0/running-ignition-on-port-80-in-linux)

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