Tracy R Reed wrote: > 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?
Does anyone even use this authentication method anymore? And this was for connections coming *from* <1024, not going to. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
