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Old 6th November 2011
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The server and some of the default applications are patched for privilege separation and other enhancements, and OpenBSD provides an "aperture" driver to limit X's access to memory. However, after recent work on X security flaws by Loïc Duflot, Theo de Raadt commented that the aperture driver was merely "the best we can do" and that X "violates all the security models you will hear of in a university class.
Hello I'm new here. Anyway, I was looking at this wondering basically, how good is "the best we can do" in a practical sense? Are there better alternatives to run on OpenBSD or should I just not use anything like that at all?
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...how good is "the best we can do" in a practical sense?
To get the broader context, read the following statement from Theo made several years ago on this subject:

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=114233317926101&w=2

The project mailing lists are some of the best sources for definitive information on OpenBSD. http://marc.info is one of the archive sites that a number of people here prefer. Others are mentioned at the following:

http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html
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Thank you, that was exactly the answer I was seeking.
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Pick a hardware platform that doesn't have the aperture issue/need the aperture driver, or don't run X.

The first link by ocicat is a very direct answer on the topic that I was going to link until I noticed that ocicat beat me to it. And speaking of that particular thread, does anyone know if the loongson machines (that had OpenBSD ported to them long after that thread) require the aperture driver? I know the loongson is basically a fancy-ish MIPS port, but I wanted to check and see if anyone here knew for sure before I ordered one.
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...does anyone know if the loongson machines...require the aperture driver?
You'll find the install.md script, where this is asked, in /usr/src/distrib/<arch>/... in either the common or the ramdisk subdirectory.

It appears to me from a quick scan of /usr/src/distrib/loongson/ramdisk/install.md that it doesn't ask the question.
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