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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. Re:Explanation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    You know little about BSD? I beleive you meant: "I know little about UNIX". You run RedHat with KDE don't you?

  2. Re:Go OpenBSD! by ryanvm · · Score: 1, Troll

    For those that are unfamiliar with OpenBSD, it is a derivative of BSD that focuses its efforts onto creating a secure system without bells and whistles.

    Which contrasts Windows' design of bells and whistles without a secure system.