This convention means that all daemons for services on ports < 1024 need some special privilege. AFAIK, this was used in the past to confer some trust on all daemons providing these services. (The assumption was that if the system administrator ran it, then it must be trustworthy). This thinking harks back to an era when SysAdmins were a select breed, not just any punk with a linux box. Nowaydays it has been realised that trusting any other machine, even on your home network, is naive (because it could have been subverted). Explicit trust and authentication mechanisms have implemented instead (to a varying degree of of efficacy). Modern networks are a lot less trusting. So the extra risk run giving these daemons extra privilege is wasted, I think. Please correct me if I'm mistaken. Alex __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
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