Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:42:58 +0200 From: Timo <timo.bsdmail@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: Re: why desktop apps are able to kill my freebsd box? Message-ID: <4E125E12.9050308@gmail.com>
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In other words, I don's think, It's about software at all In my opinion -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: why desktop apps are able to kill my freebsd box? Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:29:11 +0200 From: Timo <timo.bsdmail@gmail.com> Reply-To: timo.bsdmail@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Who decided to run any privileged application, in terms of doing what you didn't want it to? Did you at all try to implement anything you were not sure of? Or what did you ask again? What do you want to employ in the first place, and what security risks are negotiable? (firefox/freezings? try to reseat every piece of hardware until no freeze is found, including cpu, then complain about software) On 2011-07-01 11:00, Michael wrote: > Why a faulty desktop application run as unprivileged user is able to > crash my system? > > I mean, I know programs have bugs and sometimes they lead to crashes. > I'm fine with that. But why a crashing program (for example firefox or > banshee) is able to kill the whole system? > > And by 'crash' or 'kill' i mean that for whatever reason the system is > frozen and doesn't reply to anything but a hard reset. > > It just doesn't make much sense so I'm assuming that I must be doing > something wrong. Where and what kind of restrictions should I set up to > make sure that a buggy unprivileged program cannot freeze my box? > > Thank you in advance. Michael. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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