Re: /proc can be navigated to as ordinary user -- not as root!?

[Klistvud <quotations@aliceadsl.fr>]

Dne, 28. 10. 2009 15:12:42 je Aioanei Rares napisal(a):
> Klistvud wrote:
> > Howdy, fellow Debianites,
> >
> > I have bumped into a most peculiar situation lately. On my laptop 
> > (running a fully updated Lenny with Gnome) I can easily navigate
> into /
> > proc (both with Nautilus and Gnome-Commander). When I try to run
> these 
> > browsers with gksu or su, however, they never let me into /proc --
> if I 
> > try to enter there, they just stop responding. Ideas, anyone?
> >
> >   
> Try something like sudo emacs/vim/$EDITOR /proc/cpuinfo and see if it
> works.
> 
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I don't have sudoers configured, but gksu vim /proc/cpuinfo opens the 
file in vim instantly. I can of course access /proc easily from a root 
terminal too; it's just browsing/navigating with superuser permissions 
that hangs... 

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Regards,

Klistvud
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