From owner-freebsd-security Tue Aug 12 07:58:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA26547 for security-outgoing; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 07:58:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netrail.net (netrail.net [205.215.10.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA26536 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 07:57:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jonz@localhost) by netrail.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id KAA08622 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 10:56:55 GMT Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 10:56:55 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" To: security@freebsd.org Subject: Procfs patch Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Previous to the patch, I was able to look at the status of each file. Currently file permissions are globally readable, but now I can't even view the status (which might be part of why I'm getting vague ps output) jonz@mrhowell.netrail.net(43) % cd /proc/12919 jonz@mrhowell.netrail.net(44) % cat status cat: status: Operation not permitted Can't even cat it as root. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan A. Zdziarski NetRail Incorporated Server Engineering Manager 230 Peachtree St. Suite 500 jonz@netrail.net Atlanta, GA 30303 http://www.netrail.net (888) - NETRAIL -------------------------------------------------------------------------