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authorDante Catalfamo2020-06-28 18:56:45 -0400
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@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@ later donated the system. It was adopted by OpenBSD in release
2.9. BSD Auth is comparatively much simpler than PAM. Modules or,
authentication "styles", are instead stand alone applications or
scripts that communicate over IPC (=PF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM=, more
-specifically). The program or script can then very easily isolate
-itself using something like =pledge(3)= or =unveil(3)=.
+specifically). The program or script has no ability to interfere with
+the parent and can very easily isolate itself using =pledge(3)= or
+=unveil(3)=.
This one is pretty difficult, since there seems to be very little