RhostsAuthentication + nondefault port doesn't work?

[Pekka Savola]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Markus Friedl wrote:

> 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?

Yes.

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