Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:02:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:02:35 -0500 Received: from [195.39.17.254] ([195.39.17.254]:22532 "EHLO Elf.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:02:29 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 00:08:27 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Xavier Bestel Cc: Alexander Viro , Linus Torvalds , Rusty Russell , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: What's left over. Message-ID: <20021031230826.GA9168@elf.ucw.cz> References:

<20021031225729.GD4331@elf.ucw.cz> <1036103335.25512.40.camel@bip> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1036103335.25512.40.camel@bip> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 739 Lines: 22 Hi! > > This seems like a pretty common situation to me, and current solutions > > are not nice. [I guess ~/bin/ with --x and > > ~/bin/my-secret-password-only-jarka-and-mj-knows/phonebook would solve > > the problem, but...!] > > Can't even this be spied from /proc/*/fd ? Not sure... Its true that if users are not carefull (i.e. do cat ~/bin/my-secret-password-only-jarka-and-mj-knows/phonebook it can be seen on ps -aux ;-). Pavel -- When do you have heart between your knees? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/