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by gecko 2716 days ago
Haiku is a single-user system, so effectively any privilege escalation gets you root. That's enough right there for me to keep it off a server.
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waddlesplash 2716 days ago
Yes, while we need to fix the privilege issues and add proper user segmentation, we don't ever intend to aim at being a server OS.
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ec109685 2715 days ago
Isn’t the definition of privilege escalation going from non-root to root or did you mean that any RCE on an application gets you root.

Nit picking comment aside, I wonder if the fact that it is single-user was one of the reasons Apple did not go with it.

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saghm 2715 days ago
On a multi-user system, you could have one non-root user gain privileges granted to another non-root user, which I think would still be considered a privilege escalation; e.g. before the escalation, I only have access to my own home directory, but afterwards, I have access to both my own and yours.
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