Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755827AbZGURSI (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:18:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755736AbZGURSH (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:18:07 -0400 Received: from tango.0pointer.de ([85.214.72.216]:41507 "EHLO tango.0pointer.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755655AbZGURSH (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:18:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:17:41 +0200 From: Lennart Poettering To: Denys Vlasenko Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Can access to /proc/$PID/exe be relaxed? Message-ID: <20090721171741.GA28764@tango.0pointer.de> References: <20090721165248.GA27549@tango.0pointer.de> <1158166a0907211006u5e2933f8y40dd2c56055bfc93@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1158166a0907211006u5e2933f8y40dd2c56055bfc93@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Campaign-1: () ASCII Ribbon Campaign X-Campaign-2: / Against HTML Email & vCards - Against Microsoft Attachments User-Agent: Leviathan/19.8.0 [zh] (Cray 3; I; Solaris 4.711; Console) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 727 Lines: 24 On Tue, 21.07.09 19:06, Denys Vlasenko (vda.linux@googlemail.com) wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Unless I am mistaken a process currently needs CAP_SYS_PTRACE to read > > /proc/$PID/exe for abritrary processes. > > You mean "readlink'? Yes. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- 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/