Re: [PATCH 2/7] procfs privacy: tasks/processes lookup

2005-04-20 Thread Rene Scharfe
Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro schrieb: > This patch restricts non-root users to view only their own processes. You may also want to have a look at the patches I submitted over the last few weeks that restricted some file permissions in /proc// and the comments I received. Regards, Rene - To uns

Re: [PATCH 2/7] procfs privacy: tasks/processes lookup

2005-04-18 Thread Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
El lun, 18-04-2005 a las 15:24 -0400, Rik van Riel escribió: > This looks like a very bad default to me! > > Your patch would force people to run system monitoring > applications as root, because otherwise they cannot get > some of the information they can get now. Forcing that > these applicatio

Re: [PATCH 2/7] procfs privacy: tasks/processes lookup

2005-04-18 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro wrote: > This patch restricts non-root users to view only their own processes. This looks like a very bad default to me! Your patch would force people to run system monitoring applications as root, because otherwise they cannot get some of the