Re: Cisco says attacks are due to operational practices

Also, I believe ssh won't do this if you remove the suid bit (which is probably a good idea anyway). --Adam On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 03:07:25AM +0800, adrian@creative.net.au wrote:

Its not a bug, its a leftover from rsh days - if the connection originates from a port below 1024, you could assume *cough* that the credentials the connection supplies are authentic, since the process needs to be root to bind to ports < 1024.

This isn't a "but thats flawed!" discussion seed, take that to bugtraq.

There's a flag to ssh somewhere to stop it doing that. Yup, -P .

Adrian