/proc doesn't work with Samba

Gerald Carter cartegw at Eng.Auburn.EDU
Thu Jun 24 21:04:00 GMT 1999


Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> 
> It's not the place of the file sharing architecture 
> to define which files are "too important" to allow 
> remote access to.  Is /proc a serious security risk if 
> the nobody user can read it?  I mean, there's no reason
> that you can't set the access user on the /proc share 
> to "nobody".

Maybe I missed something here and so I've got to ask...


    **Why in the world would you want to share /proc???






jerry
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                            Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
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