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NAME
     securityprivportserver -- Authorization-based trampoline to acquire
     privileged ports

SYNOPSIS
     securityprivportserver

DESCRIPTION
     securityprivportserver 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
     securityprivportserver was first introduced in Mac OS X version 10.3
     (Panther).

AUTHORS
     Perry Kiehtreiber

Darwin                           March 6, 2010                          Darwin