Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262171AbVDRTZR (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:25:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262172AbVDRTZR (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:25:17 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:1161 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262171AbVDRTZL (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:25:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:24:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Lorenzo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hern=E1ndez_?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Garc=EDa-Hierro?= cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] procfs privacy: tasks/processes lookup In-Reply-To: <1113849993.17341.69.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <1113849993.17341.69.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/Mixed; BOUNDARY="=-KPP1Az1xcm3fi98ZHSiL" Content-ID: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1230 Lines: 30 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --=-KPP1Az1xcm3fi98ZHSiL Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-ID: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Lorenzo Hern?ndez Garc?a-Hierro wrote: > This patch restricts non-root users to view only their own processes. This looks like a very bad default to me! Your patch would force people to run system monitoring applications as root, because otherwise they cannot get some of the information they can get now. Forcing that these applications run with root rights is a security risk, not a benefit... -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan --=-KPP1Az1xcm3fi98ZHSiL-- - 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/