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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:39:24 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_proc.c kern_prot.c uipc_socket.c uipc_usrreq.c src/sys/netinet raw_ip.c tcp_subr.c udp_usrreq.c
Message-ID:  <p05101003b7ea36e1237a@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <xzp7ku3h6c8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <200110092140.f99LeVA74145@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzp7ku3h6c8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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At 5:17 PM +0200 10/10/01, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>    Log:
>>    - Combine kern.ps_showallprocs and kern.ipc.showallsockets into
>>      a single kern.security.seeotheruids_permitted, describes as:
>  >     "Unprivileged processes may see subjects/objects with
>  >     different real uid"
>
>Would people mind a lot if this variable defaulted to 0?

I would mind a lot.  I think this is a very good option to have for
security/privacy reasons, but the default behavior should remain the
way it is.  There are tooooooooooo many times where it is very
helpful if someone who has no special priv's can see what processes
are running.  Changing the default would make freebsd gratuitously
different from all the other unix-y systems that I run on.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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