[939] in bugtraq
Re: Request for discussion.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julian Assange)
Wed Feb 8 07:24:47 1995
From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.apana.org.au>
To: karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk (Karl Strickland)
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 20:44:18 +1100 (EST)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199502072148.VAA15318@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> from "Karl Strickland" at Feb 7, 95 09:48:29 pm
>
> >
> > > 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?
>
Not if "Real OS(tm)" == Linux. (which of course has the best procfs money can't
buy).
Proff
