On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:21:39 -0700 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The side effect of locking down more and more reporting interfaces is > > > > that programs that consume those interfaces now have to run as root. > > > > > > sudo cat /proc/allocinfo | analyse-that-fie > > > > Even that is still an annoyance, but I'm thinking more about a future > > daemon to collect this every n seconds - that really shouldn't need to > > be root. > > Yeah, that would preclude some nice usecases. Could we maybe use > CAP_SYS_ADMIN checks instead? That way we can still use it from a > non-root process? I'm inclined to keep Kees's 0400. Yes it's a hassle but security is always a hassle. Let's not make Linux less secure, especially for people who aren't even using /proc/allocinfo. If someone really wants 0666 then they can chmod the thing from initscripts, can't they?
