On Feb 26, 2008, at 9:24 PM, Tracy R Reed wrote:

ISTR there was a very good reason for requiring root to bind below 1024.

As far as I'm concerned, given a shared-use box, I'm pretty darn sure that I wouldn't want just any ol' user firing up a SMTP server on a whim. Or maybe watching for the system's DNS server to shut down or restart briefly and firing up their own in its place. I'm sure you can think of more...

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