gnu linux update question

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On 06/29/2011 04:43 AM, James McKenzie wrote:
> On 6/28/11 8:24 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 06/29/2011 11:18 AM, James McKenzie wrote:
>>> I was referring to /proc/<pid whatever>  when that user did not 'own' the
>>> process.  I'm under the impression that this is/was part of the security
>>> 'features' of Fedora Linux.  I don't have a RH box to look at and verify.
>> Right....  Understand now....
>>
>> But, as poc has indicated, many of those owned even by root are readable.
> Interesting.  I have issues with that as a security professional but 
> then again ps -ef is also available and 'shows all'.

ps -ef is just formatting the data that it reads from /proc. It can access no
more and no less than anything else.

Regards,
Bryn.