>Hi,
>
>Was browsing through the manpage for ssh_config(4), and this section appears 
>to me to be somewhat 
confusing (or at least contradictory):
>
>----
>[i]     UsePrivilegedPort
>
>         Specifies whether to use a privileged port for  outgoing
>         connections. The argument must be yes or no. The default
>         is yes. Note that setting this option to  no  turns  off
>         RhostsAuthentication and RhostsRSAAuthentication. If set
>         to yes ssh must be setuid root. Defaults to no.[/i]
>----
>
>This is a paste from Solaris 10 1/06, but jmcpAtSun informs me it's the same 
>in the b42 nightly.
>
>My specific issue is with the [b]"...The default is yes... Defaults to 
>no."[/b] part.  It's not pa
rticularly clear what the actual default is.

ssh is not set-uid root, therefor for ordinary users this is a
no-op.  So perhaps it defaults to true for root.

Casper
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