Re: broken ownership of /proc/sys/ files on 2.6.27

[Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de>]

Hi,


Peter Palfrader wrote:
> on several (probably all) of my systems running a 2.6.27 kernel on at
> least i386, amd64, ia64, sparc proc/sys does have files not owned by
> root:


same here:

0 bzed@think:~$ find /proc/sys ! -uid 0
/proc/sys/kernel/shmmni
/proc/sys/kernel/msgmax
/proc/sys/kernel/msgmni
/proc/sys/kernel/msgmnb
/proc/sys/kernel/sem
/proc/sys/fs/quota/allocated_dquots
/proc/sys/fs/quota/free_dquots
/proc/sys/fs/quota/syncs
/proc/sys/fs/quota/warnings
/proc/sys/fs/mqueue/queues_max
/proc/sys/fs/mqueue/msg_max
/proc/sys/fs/mqueue/msgsize_max
/proc/sys/fs/nfs/nlm_grace_period
/proc/sys/fs/nfs/nlm_timeout
/proc/sys/debug
/proc/sys/dev
/proc/sys/dev/raid
/proc/sys/net/ipv4
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/lo
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/wlan0
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/wlan0/retrans_time_ms
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh/lo/retrans_time_ms
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh/lo/base_reachable_time_ms
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh/vbox0
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh/vbox0/retrans_time_ms
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/lo/forwarding
/proc/sys/abi
/proc/sys/sunrpc
0 bzed@think:~$ uname -a
Linux think 2.6.27.2-think #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 23 22:21:17 CEST 2008 x86_64
GNU/Linux
0 bzed@think:~$


> That's probably not how it should be, right?

No...

Cheers,

Bernd

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