binding to privileged ports

[Markus Friedl]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:14:30AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> This creates problems in environments where a range of privileged ports
> (those which correspond to well-known services) are firewalled out,
> leaving the range from ~850 to 1023 available. From this point of view, it
> would seem desirable to count downwards as stock ssh does, rather than
> upwards.
> 
> What is the reasoning behind this decision?

i did not know that i causes problems.

however, you can use 'echo useprivilegedports no' > ~/.ssh/config
if you don't want to allocate ports < 1024.

-markus