[plug] Linux security idea - maybe

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Thu Jun 12 21:25:01 WST 2003


> Actually, many many more breakins are due to the cracking of daemons 
> running as root, and that's the first thing that should be eliminated 
> where at all possible. Where not possible, a privelege-separated model 
> needs to be used where the root process is very small and simple, using 
> only well-documented APIs to communicate with the non-root part of the 
> daemon.

... and of course chrooted daemons always help, too. Trust me to forget 
the simple(er) stuff.



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