Sandboxing

mal content artifact.one at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 9 10:23:07 UTC 2006


On 09/11/06, Luke Crawford <lsc at 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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