Does windows(10/server-2016) have privileged ports ?

[NikhilG]

I can bind to any un-used privileged ports with out admin credentials. Is this expected ? Is there no concept of privileged ports in new versions of windows ?

Below are the steps I followed:

1. Logged in as non-admin user in Windows-server 2016.
2. Installed python and started the server on port 80 using python -m SimpleHTTPServer 80
3. Another user on the same system could access using http://localhost

Can anyone provide more in-sight into this ?

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