Re: [PATCH][2.4+ptrace] fix side effects of the kmod/ptrace secfix

From: Andreas Gietl (Listen@e-admin.de)
Date: Thu Apr 24 2003 - 17:37:45 EST

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> You would need to restrict cmdline access to all root processes(not only
> suid) and maybe even to all processes with different capabilites and >
uid/gid
> to work around problems in such processes. But you would break even more
> system monitoring stuff this way(I've even heard shutdown is affected)

i can confirm that shutdown (halt|reboot) does not work on my 2.4.21-rc1-ac1
boxes. (gentoo + redhat).

But your patch does not seem to fix it.

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