Which user do you use to run the podman command? Confirm with whoami

Note that the sysctl net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start can be used to allow non-root users to bind to ports <1024, this might be configured in MicroOS, I don’t know.

I run some containers based on Fedora, mainly because I know the userspace and I don’t care about the size.

I use fail2ban to ban IPs that fall to login and also IPs that perform common scans in the reverse proxy

On the other hand I value Authelia single configuration file which I can version control in git. Authentik is a click-ops burden.