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.