procfs permissions on 2.6.x

DISCUSSION Andi Kleen 3 participants 3 messages Jul 4, 2004 8 messages not in the archive

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Andi Kleen

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2004-07-04 22:25 UTC #8 lore raw

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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

FabF

2004-07-04 22:37 UTC #9 lore raw

Quoted 7 lines · Andi Kleen

Quoted 3 lines · [email protected] 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.

We wouldn't need that feature if mods are accurately defined from the beginning (ie at creation) at that's already the case AFAICS.

FabF

Paul Jackson

2004-07-04 23:30 UTC #10 lore raw

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if mods are accurately defined from the beginning

Is there a single "accurate" definition (of /proc file permissions) on which we agree? I suspect not.

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