/proc and permissions for users

Hi

Can i change permissioons to /proc to 0550 ?

Thanks
Rafal

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 20:32:32 GMT, Asmo
<asmodeus@interia.remove.pl> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Can i change permissioons to /proc to 0550 ?
>
You could have tried that in 5 seconds. Yes you can, but users will be
unable to use commands such as ps, top, w and others, or anything that
uses /dev/fd/*. Also, you would need to write a script to change the
permissions during startup.


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Hi

> > Can i change permissioons to /proc to 0550 ?
> >
> You could have tried that in 5 seconds. Yes you can, but users will be
> unable to use commands such as ps, top, w and others, or anything that
> uses /dev/fd/*. Also, you would need to write a script to change the
> permissions during startup.

And its hard to say what is using it... hmmm maybe it was bad idea.

Do you have some links according shell account server security?

Thanks
Rafal