From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:42:37 +0000 From: Owen Stampflee Subject: Re: Why I can't bind the 1023 port? In-reply-to: <200206111046140.SM00168@------> To: Daniel Lao Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Message-id: <1023738158.3382.17.camel@whitefusion.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain References: <200206111046140.SM00168@------> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 02:18, Daniel Lao wrote: > The running result was that I could not bind these ports: 1023, 1022, ... > but it was success in bind 1024 port. > And while I su to as the super-user, I could bind all these ports! > I am wondering if the ports were really protected, and how can I use the ports? Yes, ports < 1024 are reserved ports for "public" applications and only the superuser can bind them. To use them, you need to be a superuser. I am not familar with rcp (I would use scp even for local transfers) but it should be able to run on another port. Owen -- Owen Stampflee - owen@penguinppc.org http://penguinppc.org/~owen ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/