Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Besides, if you really want to help improve security, we need to get off > of privileged ports like 80, anyhow.
I've always wondered: Why IS 80 a privileged port? Back in the day it meant that if a connection were coming from a port below 1024 you could trust that the connection was coming from someone with admin rights on the machine and not just any user. But those days are long gone. Why does Linux even require root to bind to something under 1024 anymore? -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
