RhostsAuthentication + nondefault port doesn't work?

[Markus Friedl]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:17:28PM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> It seems that RhostsAuthentication does not work on non-default port no
> matter what when connecting from OpenSSH (2.1.1, 2.2.0 tried) either with
> protocol 1 or protocol 2 (shouldn't work either..).
> 
> _However_ when connecting with SSH.COM Ltd's ssh, RhostsAuthentication
> works just fine!
> 
> Checking the port number of ssh client you can see that OpenSSH doesn't
> assign privileged port for this, but SSH Ltd's ssh does. Connecting to
> port 22 works with OpenSSH too.
> 
> Is this a feature?  If so, I wonder why?

is the openssh client setuid root?