[squid-users] safe port

From: Chandrasekhar KRISHNAN <krishnan@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 12:10:14 -0500 (EST)

Hi,

Why does Squid consider ports greater than 1024 safe, when it is easy to
abuse them (since a non-root user can bind on them)?

I went through the discussions about the safe ports in the mailing list,
but couldn't find answer to this question. Any info will be appreciated.

Best,
Chandrasekar
Received on Tue Mar 05 2002 - 10:10:16 MST

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