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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/security')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/Yama.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/security/Yama.txt b/Documentation/security/Yama.txt index 4f0b7896a21d..a9511f179069 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/Yama.txt +++ b/Documentation/security/Yama.txt @@ -41,7 +41,12 @@ other process (and its descendents) are allowed to call PTRACE_ATTACH against it. Only one such declared debugging process can exists for each inferior at a time. For example, this is used by KDE, Chromium, and Firefox's crash handlers, and by Wine for allowing only Wine processes -to ptrace each other. +to ptrace each other. If a process wishes to entirely disable these ptrace +restrictions, it can call prctl(PR_SET_PTRACER, PR_SET_PTRACER_ANY, ...) +so that any otherwise allowed process (even those in external pid namespaces) +may attach. + +The sysctl settings are: 0 - classic ptrace permissions: a process can PTRACE_ATTACH to any other process running under the same uid, as long as it is dumpable (i.e. |