OpenAI Details Codex Windows Sandbox Redesign With Two Local Accounts, DPAPI Credentials, and a Four-Layer Execution Path
After a March 2026 launch that left users contending with broad ACL changes and stale sandbox profiles, OpenAI published a stricter design splitting Codex into offline and online local users with DPAPI-protected credentials and a command-runner handoff.
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