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Hiding Linux Processes with Bind Mounts


Lately I’ve been thinking about Stephan Berger’s recent blog post on hiding Linux processes with bind mounts. Bottom line here is that if you have an evil process you want to hide, use …

Lately I’ve been thinking about Stephan Berger’s recent blog post on hiding Linux processes with bind mounts. Instead, these are essentially kernel code dressed up to look like a process so administrators can monitor various subsystems using familiar tools like ps. While I think this scenario is extremely unlikely, using “ sort -ur ” means that the mount points are returned in the proper order to be unmounted.

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