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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:34:47 -0500
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com>
To:        Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>,  Steven Hartland <steven.hartland@multiplay.co.uk>,  "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r318751 - in head/sys: kern sys
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> Note too that security.bsd.see_jail_proc is partially a work around for
> the fact that security.bsd.see_other_* doesn't work as you might expect.
> It's literally the UID/GID, rather than the username, so
> security.bsd.see_other_* has no idea that the users in the jail are not the
> same users on the host, which is unexpected and counter-intuitive at best
> and dangerous at worst. (Even if that were changed,
> security.bsd.see_jail_proc is still useful for the potential scenario where
> you don't want/need to set security.bsd.see_other_* but don't want users to
> see processes in jails.)


security.bsd.see_other_* cannot do anything *but* UID/GID -- note that it
is supported to have multiple user entries on a single system that share a
UID, and the username used to log in is not tracked by the kernel.  (E.g.,
root and toor.)

-Ben



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