On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:52:55PM -0400, Vlad wrote: > already done. www.openwall.com and download a kernel patch. i would say, it > is the FIRST thing security-wise you have > to do after you install any linux distro.
Why would you say that? Do you really consider knowledge of other users' processes to be the biggest security threat on a *nix system? It seems pretty harmless to me, given that `ls /bin` will tell me what's installed on a system and `nmap localhost` will tell me what ports are listening. About the only extra information that I can think of that would be revealed by `ps a` and would be potentially exploitable is which programs that use unix domain sockets or named pipes are running - and even that could be derived with `find` or any other sort of recursive directory search. -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.12: GCS d? s+: a C++ UL++++$ P++>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w--- O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv+ b+ DI++++ D G e* h r y+