Re: IPv4: ssh failure, local port 1023

Ben Collins (bmc@visi.net)
Wed, 2 Dec 1998 07:16:25 -0500


On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 09:17:41AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Is the ssh program suid? If not then it can't allocate port 1023 since
>
> Yes. And I run it as root.
<snip>
> But why do I never get problems if the allocated port is 1022 or 1021, which is
> also privileged?

Sounds like something else is using this port, and not very well since ssh
doesn't know about it. try killing off all of your daemons to see if ssh
works then without them. Then one at a time bring them back up, trying ssh
each time, to see which one is causing the problem.

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