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From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: sena seneviratne <auntvini@cel.usyd.edu.au>
Cc: "Tyler Littlefield" <compgeek13@gmail.com>, linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a newbie with the kernel--a few questions
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:41:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606161541.39498.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.5.2.20060616132151.04502988@brain.sedal.usyd.edu.au>

> At 09:12 PM 6/15/2006 -0600, you wrote:
> >OK, I am pretty good with c. My goal here is... Well, when a user types
> > who, I don't want it to work, unless its root. (easy to change) but I
> > want some security like that in the kernel. Also, I want to limit it to
> > when the user types ps, they can't get everyone's processes, but jsut
> > there own, unless of course, they are root.
> >Thanks,

Might also be worth looking at patches like GrSecurity which make general 
policy changes (such as these) and are well tested and robust.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-16 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-15 23:03 Tyler Littlefield
2006-06-16  2:01 ` sena seneviratne
2006-06-16  2:26   ` Vadim Lobanov
     [not found]   ` <001601c690f2$b18756c0$6401a8c0@gramdmasfury>
2006-06-16  3:36     ` sena seneviratne
2006-06-16 14:41       ` Alistair John Strachan [this message]
2006-06-17 10:58         ` Jesper Juhl
2006-06-16  2:29 ` Rik van Riel

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