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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:14566 comp.security.unix:6747 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!news.cic.net!locust.cic.net!pauls From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.security.unix Subject: rlogind decrements port numbers -- why? Date: 15 Aug 1994 16:58:06 GMT Organization: CICNet, Inc. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <32o6qu$fdj@spruce.cic.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: locust.cic.net It appears that the return port for rlogin data is assigned starting at 1023 and goes down from there for each subsequent connection to rlogind. Why is that? And why is it the opposite of telnet? What would be the ramification of having the rlogin data ports assigned in the unprivileged range (above 1024) and incremented instead of decremented? Is there some difference between rlogin and telnet that requires rlogin data ports to be in the privileged range? -- Paul Southworth CICNet Systems Support pauls@cic.net