Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:30:01 +0100 From: Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions regarding the wheel group Message-ID: <20020212093000.GB35478@pc5.abc> In-Reply-To: <20020212084759.D21643@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> References: <20020212021206.3F3AC9EFD3@okeeffe.bestweb.net> <20020212084759.D21643@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk>
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* On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:47:59AM +0000, * Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 11:57:38AM -0500, Beth Reid said: > > -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 0 Feb 6 12:27 ./proc/317/mem > > -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 0 Feb 6 12:27 ./proc/318/mem > > They're processes running as root, therefore they have root's uid and gid. > Processes running as a non-root user have different permissions, e.g. on my > system : > -rw-r----- 1 alf alf 0 Feb 12 08:43 /proc/26905/mem Does this mean if all my users have the primary group "users", they all can read the memory of processes of other users with the primary group "users"? Nicolas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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