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Linux's Landlock Security Module Lands New Maintainers To Avoid Bit Rot


Upstreamed to the Linux kernel back in 2021 was Landlock as a new means of unprivileged application sandboxing

"The goal of Landlock is to enable restriction of ambient rights (e.g. global filesystem or network access) for a set of processes. Thankfully though Xiu Jianfeng of Huawei and Nicolas Bouchinet of the government of France have stepped up to maintain Landlock in the upstream kernel. Here's to the continued success of Landlock moving forward.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.

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