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FreeBSD: How To Prevent Users from seeing information about processes owned by others
FreeBSD has inbuilt security measure to disallow users to see processes that are being run under another UID to avoid information snooping. To enable this security feature via sysctl, type the following commands:
sysctl security.bsd.see_other_uids=0 sysctl security.bsd.see_other_gids=0
To enable this security feature on boot, add the following lines to /etc/sysctl.conf:
# Hide UID and GID from other users security.bsd.see_other_gids=0 security.bsd.see_other_uids=0
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February 11th, 2012 - 16:45
anyone know if there is a similar option in linux?
February 17th, 2012 - 14:13
At last we have the equivalent of security.bsd.see_other_uids in Linux without the need to mess around with grsecurity. This feature can be enabled if you have kernel 3.3. Read here for more information: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=0499680a42141d86417a8fbaa8c8db806bea1201