[olsr-dev] root permission

[Abhishek Misra]

hello , 

According to 

http://www.bsi.de/english/gshb/manual/s/s05039.html

The ports with numbers < 1024 are also known as privileged ports, because
they may only be used by processes with root privileges. However, the
restriction that ports < 1024 may only be used by processes with root
privileges, is only a convention and it may be circumvented .

Though i do not know if , any thing special is required for this . Please
throw some more light on this .

Abhishek


On Wed, Jul 6, 2005, Andreas T?en <(spam-protected)> said:

> 
> Because it binds to UDP/698 which is a "privileged"(<1024) port.
> 
> - Andreas
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>> Hello
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>> why is it necessary to run olsr with root premission  ?
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>> Abhishek Misra
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