From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: cl@linux-foundation.org, penberg@kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make /proc/slabinfo 0400
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:29:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1299176995.2071.15.camel@dan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1299176266.8493.2369.camel@nimitz>
>
> Please don't. In reality, it'll just mean that more data collection
> things will have to get done as root, and I'll wear my keyboard out more
> often sudo'ing.
>
> If you really want this on particularly pedantic systems, why not chmod?
>
I believe the vast majority of users do not need the ability to read
this file from an unprivileged login. We should strive for security by
default. As you said, you can simply chmod this file to regain the
access permissions you require for your less common use case.
> -- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-03 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-03 17:50 [PATCH] Make /proc/slabinfo 0400 Dan Rosenberg
2011-03-03 18:17 ` Dave Hansen
2011-03-03 18:29 ` Dan Rosenberg [this message]
2011-03-03 20:58 ` Matt Mackall
2011-03-03 21:16 ` Dan Rosenberg
2011-03-03 21:44 ` Matt Mackall
2011-03-03 22:30 ` Dan Rosenberg
2011-03-03 23:08 ` Matt Mackall
2011-03-04 0:32 ` Dave Hansen
2011-03-04 0:50 ` Theodore Tso
2011-03-04 6:52 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-04 17:36 ` Dave Hansen
2011-03-04 17:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-04 18:14 ` Matt Mackall
2011-03-04 20:02 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-04 20:31 ` Matt Mackall
2011-03-04 20:42 ` Dan Rosenberg
2011-03-04 20:56 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-04 21:08 ` Dan Rosenberg
2011-03-04 21:30 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-04 21:44 ` Dan Rosenberg
2011-03-04 22:10 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-04 22:14 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-04 23:02 ` Matt Mackall
2011-03-05 16:25 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-03-06 13:19 ` Alan Cox
2011-03-07 14:56 ` Dan Rosenberg
2011-03-07 16:02 ` Matt Mackall
2011-03-04 20:37 ` Dan Rosenberg
2011-03-04 20:58 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-04 21:10 ` Dan Rosenberg
2011-03-06 0:42 ` Jesper Juhl
2011-03-06 0:57 ` Dan Rosenberg
2011-03-06 1:09 ` Matt Mackall
2011-03-06 1:15 ` Jesper Juhl
2011-03-07 16:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-04 21:12 ` Matt Mackall
2011-03-04 11:58 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-07 14:19 [PATCH] Make /proc/slabinfo 040 George Spelvin
2011-03-07 17:49 ` [PATCH] Make /proc/slabinfo 0400 George Spelvin
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