On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 12/03/2014 06:20 PM, Maynard Johnson wrote: >>> If you're running on Debian/Ubuntu it is probably this issue: >>> > >>> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/Roadmap/KernelHardening#ptrace_Protection >>> > >>> > which can be solved by doing: >>> > >>> > echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope >> Yes, that was the issue. Thanks for the tip! > > Good Lord, is that the default on Ubuntu? Argh. :-( >
Yes, all for the sake of security! Probably we won't be able to invoke gcc without any extra efforts in the near future and finally the shell will be banned :) > Andrew. > >
