Wizard-level questions

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Sat Feb 2 05:58:13 AEST 1991


>Besides getpeername, there is the concept of privileged ports in UNIX.
>They can be allocated only by root, and presumably root writes only
>trusted programs. Like sendmail, ftp, and finger :-)

In addition, that concept doesn't exist on other OSes, so if you have a
program that expects only privileged programs to be coming in from
privileged ports, may I attach a PC running DOS and some TCP/IP software
to your network? I'm sure it'd be lots of fun.... 



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