On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 08:31:20AM +0100, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > On 16/11/2025 12:35, Christopher Klooz wrote: > > > It is the successor of an earlier proposal that included > > > kernel.yama.ptrace_scope that was withdrawn. Given the wide support of > > > ptrace_scope in the first proposal and its (imho) advantages, I wanted > > > to re-propose the ptrace_scope-related part of the withdrawn proposal > > > early, and in compliance to the suggestions of splitting it from the > > > other changes. > > > > Strong -1. Disabling debug for non-root users is 100% NO-GO for me, as it > > will make Fedora unusable for development. > > It is only changing the default setting. For any given Fedora install it > would be a one-time task to change the sysctl back to its current value. > IOW, while it is inconvenient for developers on a freshly deployed machine, > it is not a blocker that makes Fedora unusable for dev purposes, except > for machines where you lack admin access & the admin won't change the > setting for you. >
What's the impact for tools like ABRT and DrKonqi? Those do retracing as non-root users to collect information to submit crash reports, among other things. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
