Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] procfs privacy | From | Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro <> | Date | Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:46:01 +0200 |
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El lun, 18-04-2005 a las 15:27 -0400, Rik van Riel escribió: > The same "this forces people to run system monitoring tasks > as root, potentially opening themselves up to security holes" > comment applies to this patch.
That's because the patch is split up, those bits are on the proc_misc one.
I agree, btw. ;)
Adding a "trusted user group"-like configuration option could be useful, as it's done within grsecurity, among that the whole thing might be good to depend on a config. option, but that implies using weird ifdef's and the other folks.
Cheers, -- Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro <lorenzo@gnu.org> [1024D/6F2B2DEC] & [2048g/9AE91A22][http://tuxedo-es.org] [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |