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From: justin <jlec@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: iotop needs to run as root after kernel change
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:22:57
Message-Id: 4F7C4AF8.2010801@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: iotop needs to run as root after kernel change by Greg KH
1 On 04/04/12 14:56, Greg KH wrote:
2
3 > On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 08:32:41AM +0200, justin wrote:
4 >> Hi,
5 >>
6 >> after this change
7 >>
8 >> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043
9 >>
10 >> iotop cannot be used as user anymore.
11 >> Any suggestions how to proceed?
12 >>
13 >> The solution I see are
14 >>
15 >> 1.
16 >> Leave it to root (Fedora and Suses way)
17 >
18 > Please leave it this way, the information leakage otherwise is too big
19 > of a risk to do anything else.
20 >
21 > greg k-h
22 >
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26 Thanks for all your responses. I will follow what was suggested by
27 upstream and what is the best from my feelings and restrict it to be
28 root only.
29
30 justin

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