Re: Bits from the Security Team

[Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>]

Hi Jakub,
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 10:33:23PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>, 2014-03-05, 20:54:
[..snip..] 
> >I looked at the docs and as I read them this would affect uid 0 as
> >well.
> 
> Luckily this is not the case. :) root can see other users' /proc
> entries just fine. Perhaps the documentation should be improved.

I should have checked the code first. If I read that correctly
CAP_SYS_PTRACE is necessary here. I've forwarded a patch upstream.
Thanks!
 -- Guido