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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."

3 of 309 comments (clear)

  1. Re:*BSD is dying by Goalie_Ca · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ever heard of MacOSx.

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  2. Re:*BSD is dying by Crusty+Oldman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They don't get it.

    (snicker)

  3. Re:Doesn't any READ ? by Sivar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Doesn't any?? READ ?

    Nah, too easy.

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