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Date:      Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:29:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Ben <spy@tyr.office.efn.org>
To:        andrewr <andrewr@slack.net>
Cc:        ben@efn.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Possible security "risk" in ftp client
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980812222847.24003A-100000@Tyr.office.EFN.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980812233717.14086A-100000@brooklyn.slack.net>

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Why do you have /proc mounted if you care at all about user's sniffing around?

	-ben@efn.org

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, andrewr wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Ben wrote:
> 
> > Maybe I'm mistaken, but ps(1) get's the info from /dev/kmem and /dev/mem and
> > formats them according to /kernel, what would I need to patch?
> 
> su to a normal user, and:
> cd /proc
> ls -al  
> cd <dir owned by root>
> cat status
> 


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