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papul1993 on Sept 15, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting ap...

I think there is a userspace version written in Go that shouldn't need root access.

apitman on Sept 15, 2020 [–]

Unless I'm mistaken, wireguard-go[0] only runs the WireGuard protocol code in userspace rather than the kernel. It still requires configuring network interfaces which requires root.

[0]: https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-go

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