Re: Change proc file permissions with sysctls

2005-03-20 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> The permissions of files in /proc/1 (usually belonging to init) are >> kept as they are. The idea is to let system processes be freely >> visible by anyone, just as before. Especially interesting in this >> regard would be instances of login. I don't know how to easily >> discriminate between

Re: [PATCH][0/6] Change proc file permissions with sysctls

2005-03-19 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 01:22 +0100, Rene Scharfe wrote: > The permissions of files in /proc/1 (usually belonging to init) are > kept as they are. The idea is to let system processes be freely > visible by anyone, just as before. Especially interesting in this > regard would be instances of login.

Re: [PATCH][0/6] Change proc file permissions with sysctls

2005-03-19 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Rene Scharfe wrote: > The permissions of files in /proc/1 (usually belonging to init) are > kept as they are. The idea is to let system processes be freely > visible by anyone, just as before. Especially interesting in this > regard would be instances of login. I think you

[PATCH][0/6] Change proc file permissions with sysctls

2005-03-19 Thread Rene Scharfe
The following patches implement another interface that allows an admin to restrict permissions inside /proc/ to enhance the privacy of users. Following a suggestion by Albert Calahan this set of patches introduces five sysctls, each one changes the permissions of a certain file in /proc/. It work