Other Features
Privilege separation, privilege revocation, chrooting and randomized loading of libraries also play a role in increasing the security of the system. Many of these have been applied to the OpenBSD versions of common programs such as tcpdump and Apache, and to the BSD Authentication system. OpenBSD also supports sandboxing of untrusted applications using the Systrace facility, a framework allowing interposition of system calls for fine-grained restriction of processes. Systrace supports interactive generation of policies, and other features designed to allow privilege elevation.
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