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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:10:53 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_proc.c kern_prot.c uipc_socket.c uipc_usrreq.c src/sys/netinet raw_ip.c tcp_subr.c udp_usrreq.c
Message-ID:  <20011010101053.A9313@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200110101556.f9AFuvU63583@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:56:57AM -0400
References:  <200110092140.f99LeVA74145@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzp7ku3h6c8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200110101522.f9AFM0S63283@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <xzpy9mjfq4z.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200110101556.f9AFuvU63583@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:56:57AM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On 10 Oct 2001 17:53:16 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> said:
> 
> > Unless you can provide an argument showing that this is necessary to
> > the correct operation of a FreeBSD system, I'll simply ignore your
> > contribution to this discussion.
> 
> And I'll simply ignore your ``contribution'' as well, if that's how
> you feel about it.
> 
> You asked ``would people mind a lot''.  I answered the question: yes,
> people would mind a great deal.  The process table is *public
> information*, and has always been so in the entire history of UNIX.
> You are proposing a totally unacceptable POLA violation.

I agree.  It would be POLA.  Put something in /etc/rc* that sets it to
`0' if a high SECURE_LEVEL is set, if you like.  Otherwise, leave Unix
alone.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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