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List:       opensolaris-security-discuss
Subject:    Re: question about priv bracketing
From:       Christine Tran <christine.tran () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-01-27 19:47:55
Message-ID: 836212a70901271147j202ad22bq96f99d4e31874861 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Glenn Brunette <Glenn.Brunette@sun.com> wrote:
>
> Christine,
>
> Not every privilege attempt that is asserted by a process is
> needed for it to operate correctly.  It really depends on the
> process and what it is trying to do.  We would need further
> details about the process and its source code to debug further,
> but based on my experience this kind of thing does indeed happen.
>
> g

Hi Glenn,

There's not a problem, the process running fine.  I just want to
understand more about this, I've been using privdebug to limit privs
to what's needed, and it turns out I may have added too many privs
unnecessarily.  This is for other  applications/processes, and for
future use.

CT
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