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security_privportserve... BSD General Commands Manualsecurity_privportserve...

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 privileged port without requiring the client application to run as
     root.  The tool will acquire the requested ports if the client is granted system.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 disallow the use of this function.

HISTORY
     security_privportserver was first introduced in Mac OS X version 10.3 (Panther).

AUTHORS
     Perry Kiehtreiber

Darwin                           April 2, 2008                          Darwin