Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 15:47:11 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What Happens When /proc is not Mounted in FreeBSD5.4? Message-ID: <20070201204711.GA74432@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200702012026.l11KQ0Ia013574@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <200702012026.l11KQ0Ia013574@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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--M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:26:00PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > Kris Kennaway writes: > > As you have found, proc is almost entirely unused in FreeBSD apart > > from one or two debugging facilities, and in fact not recommended on > > multi-user systems because the long history of security > > vulnerabilities. >=20 > Thanks to you and Fabian Keil for your succinct answers. > I took it back off and commented out the line I added to > /etc/fstab so it can be brought back temporarily when needed but > isn't just sitting there waiting for lightning to strike. You could also leave it in fstab with the noauto option so it can be easily mounted with mount /proc if needed. Kris --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFwlHPWry0BWjoQKURAnTIAKDNnXvERiYXSVD1AftYNLjbVIVraACgsO3h YhokiDcftJABZSuBrmHv+2w= =jpWR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO--
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