Wojtek schrieb am 04. Jun 2009 um 13:57:07 CEST:
> Hi,
> 
> blocking access with file permissions seems for me risky - we thought 
> about it to. The reason: complexity of dependencies.
> 
> That's why we wanted some kind of clean separation like VM or other kind 
> of virtualisiation/separation of ressources.
> 
> Our system is for users :) So we will not block the access.
> But... There are also privacy rights.

There are kernel patches just for this kind of security enhancements. Have a
look at:

    http://www.grsecurity.net/index.php
    http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Grsecurity

These patches restrict the access to /proc only to the user's own processes.
We used this some time ago in kernel 2.4 times. It works nice.

Helmut

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