Quoting Nadav Har'El, from the post of Tue, 28 Nov: > Privileged ports perhaps made sense for security on mainframe Unix (to > prevent simple users from pretending to the outside world that they > supply services for this machine), but they make little sense today
why is that exactly? I don't want a 1 minute failure of a webserver to be an excuse for any joe shmoe on a multiuser server to catch port 80 and pretend to be the authoritive website, or for that matter, ssh, samba and whatever. -- Number one in your heart Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
