From: "Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro" <lorenzo@gnu.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] procfs privacy
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:46:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1113853561.17341.111.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504181526280.11251@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com>
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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]
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-18 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-18 18:46 [PATCH 0/7] procfs privacy Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
2005-04-18 19:27 ` Rik van Riel
2005-04-18 19:46 ` Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro [this message]
2005-04-18 20:01 ` Rik van Riel
2005-04-18 20:18 ` Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
2005-04-18 20:31 ` Stephen Smalley
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