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brynet • yesterday at 9:36 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

> sshd(8): On OS X SDK >= 27, sandboxing is no longer supported as the API we depended upon has been removed and no obvious alternative provided.

https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/d4b4c304a...


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kccqzy • yesterday at 10:00 PM

Deprecated since Mountain Lion. https://issuetracker.google.com/40474030

It’s what Apple experimented with before they came up with the current entitlements system.

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mrpippy • yesterday at 10:43 PM

I look forward to seeing if Apple makes any changes in the fork they ship with the OS: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/OpenSSH.

"Updated sandbox for privilege-separated pre-authorization sshd process" is listed as a modification to the open-source project, but I suspect this is out-of-date.

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saagarjha • today at 12:16 AM

I’m confused why they can’t just write a sandbox profile that does the equivalent

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