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Let Kibana run on standard ports (HTTP :80 or HTTPS :443)

Without changing the default configuration, Kibana is listening at port 5601 for either HTTP or HTTPS.
In kibana.yml the line server.port: 5601 is setting this explicit.

When the standard port for HTTP (:443) is configured for Kibana in kibana.yml
server.port: 443
Kibana fails to start the next time with:
FATAL Error: listen EACCES: permission denied 0.0.0.0:443

When running this as root, the service starts.
The problem is that Kibana is lacking the permissions to bind to the standard ports by default.

Solution

As root or with sudo run:

setcap cap_net_bind_service=+epi /usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana
setcap cap_net_bind_service=+epi /usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana-plugin
setcap cap_net_bind_service=+epi /usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana-keystore
setcap cap_net_bind_service=+epi /usr/share/kibana/node/bin/node

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