Fastream Technologies wrote: > Ports < 1024 require admin rights on most OS. Never used Mac OS X but > maybe it has a mechanism similar to UAC(?)
As I wrote, I tried sudo open which is similar as starting a process As Administrator on Windows. -- Arno Garrels > Best Regards, > > SZ > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 18:17, Arno Garrels <arno.garr...@gmx.de> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm currently porting the TFtpServer to OS X. >> I get error EACCESS on the attempt to bind a socket to port 21 on >> the Mac, higher port numbers work fine. >> >> So I searched the internet and found this: >> "When the address type of the socket identified by the >> socket_descriptor is AF_INET, the thread must have retrieve, insert, >> delete, and update authority to the port specified by the >> local_address field. When the thread does not have this level of >> authority, an errno of EACCES is returned." >> >> Nice, but does anybody know how to get the required permission? >> I started the app with sudo from the terminal but that didn't work >> either. Firewall is turned off. >> >> -- >> Arno Garrels >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list >> please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket >> Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be