Binding ssh to priviledged port breaks rule (port < 1024 => system service)

[Damien Miller]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Ola Sigurdson wrote:

> Well, yes I know how to turn it off. 
> 
> What I'm saying is that suid should be turned off by default as it will
> cause problems for a large subset of sites who only want to use ssh as a
> secure telnet replacement.

{Open}SSH is a secure _rsh_ replacement. If you think about it like this
then its use of a secure port should be no surprise. 

-d

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