Vasiliy Kulikov <seg...@openwall.com> wrote: >> But still, I wonder if this is >> intended behaviour. > >Yes. > >If you think such side channel attacks are something you don't care, >just turn hidepid off. That's why it is an option. > >If you want to turn it off for some users, use gid=XXX.
Maybe my initial question got lost in the noise: I merely wondered why "pgrep sgid-program" returned nothing but "kill pics off stiff program" was possible. Sure, if that's intended behavior, so be it. I just don't understand the (technical) reasoning behind this. Thanks, Christian. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
