Hexren wrote:
And to note, ports <1024 are what we reffer to as "privileged ports", ie - only root, or processes running as root, can open/close/mess them.How does that make sshd less secure if its on a port above 1024 ?If ssh ever goes down, a user could start his own compromised
version of ssh and do some nasty stuff. The same user could not do
that if the connecting side would expect sshd to be on a privileged
port because the system ensures that only procs running with superuser
privileges can bind to a privileged port.
-- Colin Alston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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-- E.W.Dijkstra, 18th June 1975. (Perl did not exist at the time.)
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