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Re: Why retain privileged ports?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Thu Jul 25 23:55:16 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: tobotras@jet.msk.su (Boris Tobotras)
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 09:55:29 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0uj73r-000EpfC@jet.msk.su> from "Boris Tobotras" at Jul 24, 96 01:45:23 pm
> As far as I understand, the concept of having privileged TCP/UDP ports
> opens one of biggest security hole in Un*x world. And, it's ability to
Common myth. Trusting other people is the bug, not having port ranges
guaranteed only available for root
> What I can't understand is why are Linux (and all other unices) still
> bound themselves with this outdated constraints?
Because its very very useful for local management
