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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net>
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Subject: Re: fork with user privilegs/rights?
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:52:23 +0000
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Thomas Jahns <jahns@idontlikespam.dkrz.de> writes:
> On 03/18/2016 10:00 PM, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>> Thomas Jahns <jahns@idontlikespam.dkrz.de> writes:
>>> You might want to check out Fefe's talk on privilege dropping for Unix
>>> daemons and other privileged programs on Unix from December.
>>>
>>> <https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7284-check_your_privileges>
>>
>> Since I'm somewhat nosey, I tried to do that. However, after close to 9
>> minutes of pointless babbling of the lady who came up first, I've chosen
>> to abort the attempt.
>
> Do you refer to the introduction that lasts to about 2min into the
> video?

I may have misread the displayed time but "yes". If CCC-operated web
sites are more frequently down or up is of no concern to me and neither
is reachability of web sites in Berlin subway trains.