Re: [PATCH] proc: restrict access to /proc/interrupts

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:18:32 PST, "H. Peter Anvin" said:

> I would like to propose that we add a mount option to procfs, and
> possibly sysfs, called, say, admingrp.  These kinds of files then get
> restricted to the admingrp (defaulting to gid 0 if no admingrp is
> provided).  Historically on Unix there has been a group of people
> (usually "adm", but sometimes "log") who are allowed to read (but not
> write) the log files, which also contains potentially sensitive information.

Probably should be a two part - mount with 'gid=NNN', and then a
perm=027 or whatever, to be treated similar to a umask.  So 027
would allow root to do anything, would disable write for the gid= group,
and turn it off completely for others.  Less paranoid sites could mount
it with perm=002.

Does that cover most of the use cases?

> The current Linux trend seems to be do instead force those users to
> become root constantly, which is *not* helping the situation.

Amen, brother. ;)

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