Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 13:45:06 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Richard Arends <richard@unixguru.nl>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: truss Message-ID: <20020428134506.J37618@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020428155321.64976M-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from rwatson@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 03:59:44PM -0400 References: <20020428210839.J52867-100000@mail.unixguru.nl> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020428155321.64976M-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 03:59:44PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
[snip]
> In FreeBSD 5.0, all this information is exported from the kernel using the
> sysctl() interface, which provides much more information gating, and
> flexibe policy controls. This exists in part in 4.x, but not completely.
> In 5.0, ps requires no special privilege, and access control is done
> entirely in the kernel.
I think I'm missing something here.
$ uname -r
4.5-RELEASE
$ ls -l /bin/ps
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 213796 Jan 30 14:30 /bin/ps
ps(1) has no special privileges in 4.x, but I may not understand what
you mean by "special privileges?" (To me it means s{u,g}id.)
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