Re: [PATCH 2/7] procfs privacy: tasks/processes lookup

From: Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro (lorenzo_at_gnu.org)
Date: 04/18/05

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    To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:59:30 +0200

    El lun, 18-04-2005 a las 15:24 -0400, Rik van Riel escribió:
    > 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...

    Right, that's why I would say "fall back to the config. option"
    behavior, trusting in a certain user group defined in configuration-time
    or via sysctl, or just keeping it simple as it's right now, split up so
    anyone can decide what to apply and what shouldn't be applied.

    Cheers, 

    -- 
Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro <lorenzo@gnu.org> 
[1024D/6F2B2DEC] & [2048g/9AE91A22][http://tuxedo-es.org]

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