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Env vars are not secure. Anything that has root access can see all env vars of all applications via /proc. (And modern Linux is unusable without root access, t
by otabdeveloper4 6mo ago
Env vars are not secure. Anything that has root access can see all env vars of all applications via /proc.
(And modern Linux is unusable without root access, thanks to Docker and other fast-and-loose approaches.)
- ErroneousBosh 6mo agoHow often do you log in as root, or use sudo to become root, when you're working with Docker containers? Because I never do, unless I'm down in the depths of /var/lib/docker doing stuff I shouldn't.
- otabdeveloper4 6mo agoThat just means you outsourced the `sudo` invocations to some other person. (Which is even worse.)
- ErroneousBosh 6mo agoNo, it means I understand how Unix permissions work.
- otabdeveloper4 6mo agoGlib response, but in reality you basically cannot do anything in a modern Linux system without root except read and write files in your home directory.