Matthew Gregan wrote:
At 2004-06-18T224358+1200, steve wrote:
I've just had my first brush with gentoo, being a RedHat/Fedora/White
box user at home, and Debian at work. I use Big Brother (
http://bb4.com ) for monitoring stuff, and installed it on a gentoo
client. The problem is that ps -ef returns only locally owned
processes for a non superuser account, and BB uses this to check that
various processes are running. Is there some way that this can be
changed? I got a few sniffs from google that there may be some stuff I
can change in /etc/sysctl.conf, but if someone has already built this
wheel...
It sounds like you've got a kernel with grsecurity built in. If the kernel has been compiled with grsecurity sysctl support, you'll be able to toggle many of the security features using sysctl (or twiddling /proc/sys/kernel/grsecurity entries directly). If your kernel doesn't have sysctl support for the grsecurity features, you'll need to reconfigure the kernel, disabling the security features you don't want (restricted /proc, in your case), and rebuild.
Cheers,
-mjg
Hi Matthew,
You're exactly right! Unfortunately it's not my machine, and the user security is enabled, and sysctl support is not!
Looks like I'm b*ggered!
Thanks for the pointers,
Steve
