I think he wants something like an "inverted chroot"
(you can see out but others can't see in?
(into all facets, e.g. process stats, etc.)
julian
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Chuck Robey wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Gustavo V G C Rios wrote:
>
> > Dear gentleman,
> >
> > i am a computer science student, and this semester i had to began my
> > project to get graduated. After looking for some interesting topics on
> > many sources, one rised up:
> > Privacity on Shared Environments.
> >
> > My ideia is to add system facilities to improve privacity for users on
> > shared environment like, for instance, FreeBSD.
> >
> > One clear example:
> > No user(but only that ones previous allowed to) should be able to see
> > other users process. This facility have to be done at kernel level,
> > (that's what i think).
> >
> > There is many more thing like this, that could improve system privacity.
> > This would be my cents to FreeBSD Project.
> >
> > So, what you think about this project? Is it cool enough to be done? Is
> > it waste of time? I would really like to have your feedback. Please,
> > report me something.
> >
> > Again: i would really enjoy hearing from you wizards what you have to
> > say!
>
> You have a little problem with our language, and it's making it
> difficult to tell if you know enough to start hacking. There are
> already lots of extra security measures on FreeBSD; if you want to
> research this, and perhaps come up with something extra, you'd certainly
> want to look at the "pam" facility (man pam), which would probably be
> where you'd want to do your work.
>
> From your words above, it *seems* like you're saying that facilities
> like this don't already exist; they do indeed. Adding more is possible,
> but you'd need to find a niche that's been overlooked. If you just
> started hacking without looking at what's already there, your chance of
> getting it accepted is virtually nil.
>
> We want to be willing to accept new code, but that code has to fit into
> the architecture of FreeBSD.
>
>
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