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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:52:37 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@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:  <200110101952.f9AJqb776963@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "10 Oct 2001 17:53:16 %2B0200." <xzpy9mjfq4z.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> 
References:  <xzpy9mjfq4z.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>  <200110092140.f99LeVA74145@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzp7ku3h6c8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200110101522.f9AFM0S63283@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> 

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In message <xzpy9mjfq4z.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> writes:
: > <<On 10 Oct 2001 17:17:59 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> said:
: > > > "Unprivileged processes may see subjects/objects with different real uid"
: > > Would people mind a lot if this variable defaulted to 0?
: > Hell yes.
: 
: That's not a constructive response.
: 
: To me, the ability of unprivileged users to obtain information about
: other users' processes and sockets is
: 
:  a) unnecessary
:  b) a violation of privacy
:  c) a security risk
: 
: 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.

It violates POLA and would piss off a lot of people.  It is an fairly
major worldview change for a stable branch, but 5.0 could introduce
this as the new default.

And it isn't a security risk for properly written programs.

Warner

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