Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] system groups
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
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Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:02:46 +0100
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On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 15:19 +0000, Natanael Copa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have introduced a special system group with gid 700. All users in
> this group will have permission to see all processes, network info and
> kernel symbols. The purpose of this is to have monitorig software like
> zabbix and nagios agents running as users that are in this group.
> 
> I will update alpine-baselayout (which has not been touched for years)
> with a new group, called 'readproc', which will be used for gid 700.

I should have picked a lower gid. Seems like 30 is free. Everybody ok
with me updating the kernel to use GID=30 and update
alpine-baselayout's /etc/group to hold 'readproc:x:30:'?

Thanks!

-nc



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