From owner-freebsd-security Tue Feb 12 2:54:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com (mailout02.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD98C37B423 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 02:54:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd04.sul.t-online.de by mailout02.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16aZGK-00018i-02; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:30:08 +0100 Received: from pc5.abc (520067998749-0001@[217.233.117.247]) by fmrl04.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16aZGE-0JVvBwC; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:30:02 +0100 Received: (from nicolas@localhost) by pc5.abc (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1C9U1I57239 for freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:30:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from list@rachinsky.de) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:30:01 +0100 From: Nicolas Rachinsky To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions regarding the wheel group Message-ID: <20020212093000.GB35478@pc5.abc> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020212021206.3F3AC9EFD3@okeeffe.bestweb.net> <20020212084759.D21643@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020212084759.D21643@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Powered-by: FreeBSD X-Homepage: http://www.rachinsky.de X-PGP-Keyid: C11ABC0E X-PGP-Fingerprint: 19DB 8392 8FE0 814A 7362 EEBD A53B 526A C11A BC0E X-PGP-Key: http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas/nicolas_rachinsky.asc X-Sender: 520067998749-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:47:59AM +0000, * Ceri 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