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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: How do nonroot Android & nonjailbroken iOS run SMB servers to
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Date: 26 Apr 2025 04:23:02 GMT
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On 2025-04-26, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> On 2025-04-25 11:11, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-04-25 17:33, Arno Welzel wrote:
>>> Frank Slootweg, 2025-04-25 17:13:
>>>
>>>> Tyrone <none@none.none> wrote:
>>>>> On Apr 24, 2025 at 1:02:33?PM EDT, "Arno Welzel" 
>>>>> <usenet@arnowelzel.de> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>>> Correct - iOS also does not allow using ports below 1024 for *servers*
>>>>>> implemented in user installable apps without privileged access.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh look.  Arlen has Y.A.S.P.  That's so cute.
>>>>
>>>>    Arno Welzel isn't 'Arlen'. As Chris also mentioned, Arno came (too)
>>>> late to the thread and apparently has not been following the thread, so
>>>> he was not aware that iOS *can* use servers on ports below 1024.
>>>>
>>>>    AFAICT from the comments from You Guys (TM), Arno's comment on "user
>>>> installable apps" is incorrect, because AFAIK the iOS SMB server used
>>>> ('LAN Drive Samba server') *is* an user-installable app. Correct?
>>>> What about his "apps without privileged access" comment?
>>>
>>> I stand corrected, if iOS allows user installable apps without any
>>> special permission using ports below 1024 as server. I was just not
>>> aware of that and did not expect this, since Android does not allow that
>>> like any Linux based systems. But iOS is not Linux based and of course
>>> it may be that Apple decided to handle that in a different way.
>> 
>> iOS an unixoid system inside. It is based on Darwin, which is an open- 
>> source Unix-like operating system developed by Apple. It should have the 
>> same limitation binding to ports below 1024 for user apps. That it 
>> doesn't is interesting.
>
> Not really.
>
> It's not like the restriction on "privileged ports" is baked into the 
> kernel...
>
> ...and even if it were, it could be unbaked.

Exactly. It's really not the big deal they think it is.

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