Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:29:06 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ptrace: it is fun to strace /sbin/init |
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On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:51:10 +0300 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> wrote:
> Ptracing of /sbin/init is not allowed. Of course, this is dangerous, but may > be useful. Introduce the kernel boot parameter to allow this, so that we can't > surprise some special/secured systems.
I dunno, is this really needed? If root wants to screw up his kernel then he is free to do so.
And if we *really* want an extra foot-protector for this, it could be a runtime /proc/sys/kernel/root-can-shoot-inits-foot rather than a boot-time option?
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