bug in readconf.c

Dan Astoorian djast at cs.toronto.edu
Fri Jan 25 11:27:19 EST 2002


On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:15:31 EST, Martin Siegert writes:
> Hi,
> 
> there is a tiny bug in readconf.c: options->use_privileged_port is always
> set to 0 regardless of whether -P is specified or not. This has the effect
> that RhostsAuthentication is disabled even if "RhostsAuthentication yes"
> is specified.

I don't believe that's a bug.

The documented default for UsePrivilegedPort is 'no', which is what
readconf.c does.  This default has changed from previous releases.

Try using "-o UsePrivilegedPort=yes" to turn it on.

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