[Bug 347211] Re: authbind unreasonably fails to address ports 512 through 1023

Jason Brittain jason.brittain at mulesoft.com
Fri Jan 22 18:48:19 GMT 2010


The man page that comes with version 1.2.0build2 still claims:

"Ports  from  512 to 1023 inclusive cannot be used with authbind because
that would create a security hole, in conjection with rshd."

.. even though authbind has been patched to allow using those ports.

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authbind unreasonably fails to address ports 512 through 1023
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/347211
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