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OpenBSD Gains Privilege Elevation

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the permission-granted dept.

ocipio writes "OpenBSD's systrace now has privilege elevation support. This means binaries no longer need to be suid or sgid an longer. Applications can be executed completely unprivileged. Systrace raises the privileges for a single system call depending on the configured policy."

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  1. Serious! by Trusty+Penfold · · Score: 2, Funny

    This sounds like a serious one, I hope they fix it faster than Microsoft fixed their's

    1. Re:Serious! by FordPrfct · · Score: 3, Funny

      Probably. Years of IT have blurred the lines between jokes and cluelessness in others.

      IHBT. I will HAND.

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    2. Re:Serious! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      No, sir, it is you that misunderstand. Perhaps this will help clear things up.

  2. Re:Article is over most /.er's heads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And they hate you for pointing it out to them!

    (bfd)

  3. Logo! by snorggle · · Score: 3, Funny
    What?!? No blowfish logo? Not that the little devil doesn't work or anything, but I'm used to seeing the blowfish associated with OpenBSD.

    And you have to admit it would bring nice little change to the front page, and maybe a few more "WTF is this?!?" posts. Especially if it was the sub logo from here :-)

    Yes... I'm a fanatic, now go away you insensitive clod.

  4. Moderation? by VTg33k · · Score: 5, Funny

    "This means binaries no longer need to be suid or sgid an longer."

    Doesn't Slashdot have any moderators who speak English? I'll gladly volunteer to read over the stories before you guys post them to the main page if it'll rid us of these ridiculous grammar, spelling, and style absurdities.

  5. Re:Article is over most /.er's heads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    This article is clearly over most slashdot readers' heads.

    Huh? I don't get it.

  6. Re:Article is over most /.er's heads by spakka · · Score: 5, Funny
    50% of the comments are asking what this means, and the other 45% are asking if this is a security flaw.

    and the other 5% can't even add up.

  7. Re:This is a good thing? by evilviper · · Score: 5, Funny
    That way, if someone remotely breaks ntpd, well, they don't own your machine -- at best they can crash your ntpd.

    A big bad hacker broke into my OpenBSD box and changed the time... THE HEARTLESS BASTARD!
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