Tom Horsley writes:

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:05:59 +0100
Bryn M. Reeves wrote:

> It's presumably being having its capabilities dropped because you are ptracing > an executable with the cap_net_bind_service capability as an unprivileged user > (if it wasn't it would be a security hole as a regular user could use a debugger
> to bind arbitrary privileged ports).

It is the rsh client program, why on earth would the rsh client need to bind
a privileged port?

So that it can prove to the rsh server that it's a connection from a privileged process; so if it says that this is user X connecting, it must really be user X.

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