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

submitted 4 months ago by Blaze@lemmy.zip to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months 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.

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

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