From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: procfs permissions on 2.6.x
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 00:25:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34qone7f6.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2env9-7li-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk's message of "Mon, 05 Jul 2004 00:20:07 +0200")
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk writes:
>
> Why on the earth do we ever want to allow chown/chmod on procfs in the first
> place?
It's useful to stop other people from reading your environment
or command line.
-Andi
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-04 22:25 UTC|newest]
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2004-07-04 22:25 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-07-04 22:37 ` procfs permissions on 2.6.x FabF
2004-07-04 23:30 ` Paul Jackson
2004-07-03 20:22 Herbert Poetzl
2004-07-03 20:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-03 20:35 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-03 21:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-03 21:35 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-04 21:35 ` viro
2004-07-04 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-04 22:13 ` viro
2004-07-04 22:43 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-06 3:31 ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-07-05 1:50 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-07-05 1:55 ` viro
2004-07-05 8:05 ` Duncan Sands
2004-07-05 8:14 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-07-04 1:27 ` bert hubert
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