Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 01:08:33 +0000 From: Niall Smart <rotel@indigo.ie> To: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>, joelh@gnu.org, matthew@wolfepub.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Protecting data in memory Message-ID: <199807160008.BAA02112@indigo.ie> In-Reply-To: <199807152155.RAA07159@lor.watermarkgroup.com>; Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
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On Jul 15, 5:55pm, Luoqi Chen wrote: } Subject: Re: Protecting data in memory > > Actually, if you raise the securelevel to 1 or above, not even root can > access kernel memory space (see init(8)). It is still possible to access > user process memory space through procfs -- procfs doesn't yet check And ptrace(2). Niall -- Niall Smart. PGP: finger njs3@motmot.doc.ic.ac.uk FreeBSD: Turning PC's into Workstations: www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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