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Date:      Wed, 13 Aug 1997 03:32:20 -0700
From:      Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
To:        cy@uumail.gov.bc.ca, dg@root.com
Cc:        Sean Eric Fagan <sef@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: procfs patch
Message-ID:  <199708131032.DAA17410@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
In-Reply-To: Cy Schubert <cy@cwsys.cwent.com> "Re: procfs patch" (Aug 12,  7:12am)

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On Aug 12,  7:12am, Cy Schubert wrote:
} Subject: Re: procfs patch
} All this patch does, in addition to allowing the "standard" access list
} access, is allow KMEM_GROUP read access, so IMHO it's almost perfect.
} Could this be controllable via sysctl, which would be used at boot time
} with a one-line awk script to get kmem's gid and poke it into the kernel.

I think it would be better as a mount option than a global variable.  It
sounds kind of icky, but mount_procfs could stat /dev/kmem to find the
proper gid ...

			---  Truck



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