Re: procfs: rw,noauto

[Chuck Swiger <cswiger%mac.com@localhost>]

On Jul 8, 2008, at 7:14 AM, raymond.meyer%rambler.ru@localhost wrote:
> Why is it that in /etc/fstab procfs filesystem is not mounted  
> automatically at
> boot (i.e. why is it noauto)? This is on sparc64, maybe it's  
> different on
> other ports?

procfs has a (former?) history of security vulnerabilities or  
privileged information disclosure; it's safer to have it disabled  
unless you need to run something which absolutely needs it.  Although,  
I just looked and the only recent one I saw for NetBSD was NetBSD- 
SA2000-001, but on Linux systems there have been quite a few more  
issues with it...

Regards,
--
-Chuck