On Feb 26, 2006, at 8:56 AM, William Squires wrote:
Supposedly, on OS X and Linux, you can't bind to a port # < 1024
without superuser privileges. Then how are ordinary (non-admin) users
able to use mail, web, ftp, chat, etc... as these all use ports <
1024. I've never had Safari ask me for my password (via the login
screen - like in certain control panels) every time I want to surf the
web. Ditto for Mail.app.
This doesn't seem to jive.
A server app cannot bind to listen on these ports without special
privileges
None of these listen on those ports
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