From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 5 00:59:20 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96A4106564A for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 00:59:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timo.bsdmail@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7844A8FC0C for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 00:59:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwa20 with SMTP id 20so6348104bwa.13 for ; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:59:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dG1Agh6V9OZbzVyjKYxYOQJ2wrbyNtqfV7IJf055AeQ=; b=cQmBzIlggSz/yPUCk8MgBP+iTcqGeOfzSCkFBB7ZJCGpobQPX6DnoFHIdcSU2zwo9I ih2Tm4RrpWAPDftugzVUQmvZExpDLbh/ptOREmZlnvmCVBD5ZDCq5Js9w4MXwqQZBesX I1CBQqsrxlKiTlBwWWAJ2sJ7CTXkxG4KMaCIs= Received: by 10.204.42.11 with SMTP id q11mr5910347bke.131.1309825761269; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:29:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.112] (78.156.198.173.bredband.tre.se [78.156.198.173]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f16sm239012bke.4.2011.07.04.17.29.19 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:29:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E125AD7.4060401@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:29:11 +0200 From: Timo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4E0D8CCB.1000004@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E0D8CCB.1000004@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: why desktop apps are able to kill my freebsd box? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: timo.bsdmail@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:59:21 -0000 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"