>Why is it that Amanda wants reserved ports (<=1024) for backup and
>recovery. ...
Only privileged (root) processes on Unix systems are allowed to request
port numbers < 1024. So you would have to be root to get such a port
and that implies a certain amount of trust.
>Arjan
John R. Jackson, T
Hi,
I'm new to the list and am have a question...
Why is it that Amanda wants reserved ports (<=1024) for backup and
recovery. It clearly has something to do with security, but I do not see
the point of not using higher ports. I am not very well educated in IP
theory, but maybe someone could shi
