Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:48:59 +0100 (MET) | | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | | Subject | Re: Change proc file permissions with sysctls |
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>> The permissions of files in /proc/1 (usually belonging to init) are >> kept as they are. The idea is to let system processes be freely >> visible by anyone, just as before. Especially interesting in this >> regard would be instances of login. I don't know how to easily >> discriminate between system processes and "normal" processes inside >> the kernel (apart from pid == 1 and uid == 0 (which is too broad)). >> Any ideas?
As a side note, I have not experienced any problems when also "hiding" system processes by making e.g. /proc/1 mode 0700.
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