[932] in bugtraq
Re: Request for discussion.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Strickland)
Tue Feb 7 18:42:23 1995
From: Karl Strickland <karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk>
To: Timothy Newsham <newsham@aloha.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 21:48:29 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <m0rbwBI-000a17C@hookomo> from "Timothy Newsham" at Feb 7, 95 10:06:36 am
>
> > Oh and dont forget the pagedaemon :-) ps could run without privileges as well
> > if we made /dev/kmem and /dev/drum (or whatever) 644... Now theres an
> > improvement. (Any ultrix people reading this? :-)
>
> ps can already run without priveledges. mount -t procfs /dev/kmem /proc
>
> Assuming you use a "Real OS(tm)" ;-)
On what OS? Isnt it the case that ps's on these /proc systems often need
to run setuid root, so that than can ioctl(2) everyone's processes?
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