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NAME
security_privportserver -- Authorization-based trampoline to acquire
privileged ports
SYNOPSIS
security_privportserver
DESCRIPTION
security_privportserver is used by the Authorization framework call
AuthorizationBindPrivilegedPort() to allow a process to bind to a privi-
leged port without requiring the client application to run as root. The
tool will acquire the requested ports if the client is granted sys-
tem.privilege.port.connect and system.privilege.port.accept rights in a
Security Authorization evaluation.
This command is not intended to be invoked directly.
FILES
/etc/authorization
The authorization database can be configured to allow or disal-
low the use of this function.
HISTORY
security_privportserver was first introduced in Mac OS X version 10.3
(Panther).
AUTHORS
Perry Kiehtreiber
Darwin October 28, 2007 Darwin
Mac OS X 10.5 - Generated Sun Oct 28 21:02:23 EDT 2007