binding socket fails when run under ptrace?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Tue Jul 26 13:37:17 UTC 2011


Once upon a time, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> said:
> It is the rsh client program, why on earth would the rsh client need to bind
> a privileged port?

Because that's how rsh works for .rhosts and /etc/hosts.equiv
processing.  Connections from a privileged port are considered
"trusted".
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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