Does anyone use UsePrivilegedPort=yes or setuid ssh(1) ?

[Darren Tucker]

On 6 July 2018 at 17:24, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de>wrote:
[...]
> I think we have one customer connection where their firewall admin
> thinks "it is more secure that way" - read, we can't ssh in if we come
> from high ports.
>
> OTOH, thanks for the pointer with ProxyCommand - it's a very specific
> niche problem with a viable workaround, so I can't think of any
> remaining reason why we'd want suid ssh anymore ;-)

There's another possibility: if you have a NAT-capable packet filter
in the path you might be able to remap the source ports using source
NAT.  I think that'd be --to-source=1.2.3.4:800:1023 in iptables (not
sure about other systems, I didn't see an obvious way to do it with
PF).

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