Subject: Re: ktrace
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <p99dreyf@criens.u-psud.fr>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: tech-security
Date: 01/15/2001 17:02:07
>> Yes, that would be a good idea. I can't see a situation where a user would
>> want to read the ktrace.out of someone else (and don't have root access or
>> passwd do su).
>
>Well I thought about forcing mode 600 only for root. After all, you
>could be debugging a programm with someone else, and you might want to
>say "hey, look at the ktrace I just produced". 

me:  hey, look at the ktrace I just produced!
him: hey, i can't read that!
me:  doh!  lemme chmod that.
him: ooh...that's neat.

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