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Comment on Ask HN: Good ideas to defend against the bash RCE?

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Run externally accessible applications under a user id with no login and no ownership of the application files it's running. Make sure that the euid of the process can only write to the specific areas of the system that are absolutely necessary. This would help quarantine the system impact of remote code execution like this.

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