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Re: OpenSSH Vulns (new?) Priv seperation


From: "Michael Greenberg" <greenberg () nji com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:08:57 -0400

"However, with privileges separation turned on, you are 
immune from at least one remote hole."
at least one? Jesus how many are there? any information 
would be appreciated....
-wire

I think he means to imply that with UsePrivilegeSeparation, you'll be 
immune to unknown bugs in the nearly twenty-five thousand lines of non-
root code.

I would liken this to Apache, running as 'nobody' or a separate user, 
as compared with IIS, running as 'System'.  It's a Good Thing.

Michael.


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