ssh-keygen -t dsa

THEN I BECOME ROOT AND COPY MY KEYS TO MY ROOT ACCOUNT ALSO

su -
cd /var/root/.ssh
cp ~craig/.ssh/id* .

THEN I TRY MY PORT FORWARDING TO WORK MAIL SERVER, I CHANGED THE HOST NAME

sudo ssh -2 -L 25:localhost:25 craig@work.example.com

THE RESULT:
surprisingly it no longer requires me to enter my root password for PORT FORWARDING on a PRIVILEDGED PORT.

is this a security violoation.
it always asked me for my root password prior to even trying to do port forwarding.

-craig