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Date:      Thu, 9 Nov 2006 10:22:59 +0000
From:      "mal content" <artifact.one@googlemail.com>
To:        "Luke Crawford" <lsc@prgmr.com>
Cc:        Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-security-local@be-well.ilk.org>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sandboxing
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On 09/11/06, Luke Crawford <lsc@prgmr.com> wrote:
> jail is the best sandbox FreeBSD has;  if that's to heavy, simply run it
> setuid to another user that doesn't have permission to anything- it's not
> as good of a sandbox, but it's lightweight.
>

Of course there is another problem with this approach: a different UID isn't
allowed to connect to :0.0 on the X server under the FreeBSD default
security settings for X.

MC



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