Re: Ports and privileges

[Darren Reed <darrenr () cyber com au>]

In some mail I received from tqbf () secnet com, sie wrote
>       - I proposed to the FreeBSD project about a year ago that they
>         make the UID/GID requirement for privileged ports configurable,
>         so rsh/rlogin could run as group "network" instead of root.
>         I also supplied patches, which you can find by searching the
>         mailing lists at freebsd.org for "privileged ports" (there's
>         also a patch I did there to make raw sockets configurable too).

A very easy way to do this is to make portalfs better and have them use
sockets acquired in that manner.