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Date:      Sun, 22 Dec 1996 16:47:02 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Victor Rotanov <vitjok@fasts.com>
Cc:        cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: seems like procfs bug... 
Message-ID:  <199612230047.QAA23206@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Dec 1996 19:54:38 GMT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.961222195257.271D-100000@server.fasts.com> 

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>> > Heres the problem:
>> > 
>> > There is r-xr-xr-x file in rwx------ directory.
>> > When i run it, everyone is able to read it from /proc/<PID>/file.
>> > Seems like a bug, eh?
>> > 
>> 
>> 
>> Maybe I'm missing something.  I can't reproduce your problem on my 2.1.5
>> systems.
>
>I'm running 2.2 and i never tried this on 2.1.5.

   2.1.5 had the 'file' disabled because it didn't work right. We should
probably kill it in 2.2, too, but only because it isn't very useful and
(as you've pointed out) creates a security hole.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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