Re: [PATCH 5/7] procfs privacy: /proc/config.gz

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro wrote: > This patch changes the permissions of the procfs entry config.gz, thus, > non-root users are restricted from accessing it. Why? What is the security benefit of doing this ? -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the

[PATCH 5/7] procfs privacy: /proc/config.gz

This patch changes the permissions of the procfs entry config.gz, thus, non-root users are restricted from accessing it. It's also available at: http://pearls.tuxedo-es.org/patches/security/proc-privacy-1_kernel_configs.c.patch -- Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PATCH 5/7] procfs privacy: /proc/config.gz

This patch changes the permissions of the procfs entry config.gz, thus, non-root users are restricted from accessing it. It's also available at: http://pearls.tuxedo-es.org/patches/security/proc-privacy-1_kernel_configs.c.patch -- Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH 5/7] procfs privacy: /proc/config.gz

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro wrote: This patch changes the permissions of the procfs entry config.gz, thus, non-root users are restricted from accessing it. Why? What is the security benefit of doing this ? -- Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the