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Date:      Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:27:33 +0100
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        "Jimmy Scott" <admin@inet-solutions.be>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: procfs + chmod = no go
Message-ID:  <xzpvfloiwga.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <1298.213.224.103.192.1078085673.squirrel@webmail.boxke.be> (Jimmy Scott's message of "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:14:33 %2B0100 (CET)")
References:  <1298.213.224.103.192.1078085673.squirrel@webmail.boxke.be>

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"Jimmy Scott" <admin@inet-solutions.be> writes:
> Is this possible on FreeBSD 4.9 ? Can't find anything about it in the
> manual pages. Just want to prevent lusers from running:
>
> for file in /proc/*/cmdline; do cat $file; echo; done

Why?  They can get the same information from ps(1) or the kern.proc
sysctl tree.

(in 5.2, you can set security.bsd.see_other_uid to 0 to prevent users
from seeing other users' processes)

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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