OpenBSD Gains Privilege Elevation

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."

Comments

Moderation?

[VTg33k]

"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.

Re:Article is over most /.er's heads

[spakka]

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.

Re:This is a good thing?

[evilviper]

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!