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2004 Nov 21
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mac_portacl and automatic port allocation
Hello, I really like the idea behind mac_portacl but I find it difficult to use it because of one issue. When an unprivileged program binds to high automatic port with a call to bind(2) and port number set to 0 the system chooses the port to bind to itself. This mechanismus is used by number of programs, most commonly by ftp clients in active mode. Unfortunately this 0 is checked by the