Re: [PATCH] ptrace: it is fun to strace /sbin/init

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 03/24, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > /sbin/init is important, but there are other important (and sometimes
> > much more important) services. Why it is so special so that we can't
> > debug/strace it?
> 
> Maybe. Let's kill /sbin/init protection in 2.6.26. But making it
> optional is wrong.

You are right, the boot parameter is silly. How about sysctl?

Stephen, do you see any security problems if we make /sbin/init
ptraceable by default?

Oleg.

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