Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:24:43 -0400 (EDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/7] procfs privacy: tasks/processes lookup |
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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 information they can get now. Forcing that these applications run with root rights is a security risk, not a benefit...
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