El lun, 18-04-2005 a las 15:24 -0400, Rik van Riel escribió: > This looks like a very bad default to me! > > Your patch would force people to run system monitoring > applications as root, because otherwise they cannot get > some of the information they can get now. Forcing that > these applications run with root rights is a security > risk, not a benefit... Right, that's why I would say "fall back to the config. option" behavior, trusting in a certain user group defined in configuration-time or via sysctl, or just keeping it simple as it's right now, split up so anyone can decide what to apply and what shouldn't be applied. Cheers, -- Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro <[email protected]> [1024D/6F2B2DEC] & [2048g/9AE91A22][http://tuxedo-es.org]
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