Re: [squid-users] safe port

That's just an old naming convention. You can choose which ports Squid
considers "safe" yourself anyway.

A non-root user binding to a port above 1024 is /safer/ than a root user bound
to port 80, but of course that doesn't make it completely safe of course

Simon

On 05-Mar-02 at 12:10, Chandrasekhar KRISHNAN's inspired musing was thus :
> 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

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