Capsicum: Lightweight Isolation for FreeBSD Processes

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Gerard

David Chisnall looks at Capsicum, a new capability-oriented security model in FreeBSD 9, and how it can be used to implement reduced and separated privilege with small modifications to existing applications.

Read the article: Capsicum: Lightweight Isolation for FreeBSD Processes

 


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Gerard is a keen user of open source operating systems and software. On this blog he shares FreeBSD news and links that he comes across.
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