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'Critical' vulnerability in OpenSSH uncovered, affects almost all Linux systems (www.computing.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't it use built in OS mechanisms for that? Surely you could figure out a way to only give it permissions it needs. Maybe break it up into two separate processes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That just sounds like root with extra steps (trying to implement OS security policies in a remote terminal utility)