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introduce sandboxing of the pre-auth privsep child using systrace(4).

This introduces a new "UsePrivilegeSeparation=sandbox" option for
sshd_config that applies mandatory restrictions on the syscalls the
privsep child can perform. This prevents a compromised privsep child
from being used to attack other hosts (by opening sockets and proxying)
or probing local kernel attack surface.

The sandbox is implemented using systrace(4) in unsupervised "fast-path"
mode, where a list of permitted syscalls is supplied. Any syscall not
on the list results in SIGKILL being sent to the privsep child. Note
that this requires a kernel with the new SYSTR_POLICY_KILL option.

UsePrivilegeSeparation=sandbox will become the default in the future
so please start testing it now.

feedback dtucker@; ok markus@

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 * Copyright (c) 2011 Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
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struct ssh_sandbox;

struct ssh_sandbox *ssh_sandbox_init(void);
void ssh_sandbox_child(struct ssh_sandbox *);
void ssh_sandbox_parent_finish(struct ssh_sandbox *);
void ssh_sandbox_parent_preauth(struct ssh_sandbox *, pid_t);