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Development: Why must the port be greater than 1024?

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Re: Development: Why must the port be greater than 1024?

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Originally posted by kokonauta
Why not remove it?

Ports below 1024 on Unix systems can only be bound to by the superuser. You would have to run mutella as root to access those ports.

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