From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 24 1:21:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hydrant.intranova.net (hydrant.intranova.net [209.201.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2312937BBB2 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 01:21:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oogali@intranova.net) Received: (qmail 4264 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2000 05:21:42 -0000 Received: from localhost (user25706@127.0.0.1) by hydrant.intranova.net with SMTP; 24 Feb 2000 05:21:42 -0000 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:21:42 -0500 (EST) From: Omachonu Ogali To: Paul Dekkers Cc: FreeBSD Mailinglist Subject: Re: what about unmounting /proc? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why not apply the procfs patch instead of doing a partial fix? On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Paul Dekkers wrote: > Hi > > Because of an exploit that worked with the /proc filesystem I wondered > what difference it would make if I unmounted /proc. In the procfs manual I > read that the filesystem is used for 'w' and 'ps' but both commands still > work after unmounting and I don't see one error. > > Are there any problems to be expected (for a web/mail/sql/... server)? > > Paul > > -- > Paul Dekkers > E-Mail: > To err is human, to moo bovine > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Omachonu Ogali oogali@intranova.net | | Intranova Networking Group http://tribune.intranova.net | | PGP Key ID: 0xBFE60839 | | PGP Fingerprint: C8 51 14 FD 2A 87 53 D1 E3 AA 12 12 01 93 BD 34 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message