Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:18:11 +0200 From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> To: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /proc query Message-ID: <19980815131811.26237@deepo.prosa.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9808151513180.19684-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>; from Nicholas Charles Brawn on Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 03:15:45PM %2B1000 References: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9808151513180.19684-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>
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Nicholas Charles Brawn writes:
> What are the pros and cons of unmounting /proc? By itself it would
> appear to enhance security, in that it reduces the amount of information
> given out, but are there any functionality problems I should be aware
> of?
ps's output will only give the process name, and "killall" won't
work (off the top of my head -- there's more).
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-[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]-
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