Re: [PATCH 0/7] procfs privacy

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Mon Apr 18 2005 - 15:03:55 EST


On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro wrote:

> Adding a "trusted user group"-like configuration option could be useful,
> as it's done within grsecurity, among that the whole thing might be good
> to depend on a config. option, but that implies using weird ifdef's and
> the other folks.

I'd rather see something like this implemented as an LSM
module - or better yet, an SELinux security policy.

There's no need to sprinkle security policy all over the
kernel.

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