Re: [PATCH 0/7] procfs privacy

[Rik van Riel]

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

> - /proc/ioports
> - /proc/iomem
> - /proc/devices
> - /proc/cmdline
> - /proc/version
> - /proc/uptime
> - /proc/cpuinfo
> - /proc/partitions
> - /proc/stat
> - /proc/interrupts
> - /proc/slabinfo
> - /proc/diskstats
> - /proc/modules
> - /proc/schedstat

The same "this forces people to run system monitoring tasks
as root, potentially opening themselves up to security holes"
comment applies to this patch.

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