From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 17 20:11:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA15939 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 20:11:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from maui.net (maui.net [207.175.210.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA15871 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 20:11:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from langfod@maui.net) Received: from mx3.maui.net (www.maui.net [207.175.210.4]) by maui.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA19056; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:10:55 -1000 (HST) From: David Langford Received: (from langfod@localhost) by mx3.maui.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) id RAA17214; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:10:54 -1000 (HST) Message-Id: <199809180310.RAA17214@mx3.maui.net> Subject: Re: Limit 'ps' to show only user's processes In-Reply-To: <199809180255.VAA02946@detlev.UUCP> from Joel Ray Holveck at "Sep 17, 98 09:55:25 pm" To: joelh@gnu.org Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:10:53 -1000 (HST) Cc: abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-blank-line: This space intentionaly left blank. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> Several people have been asking for this "feature" from time to time, >> namely that they could set a system variable (sysctl?) to limit 'ps' to >> show not all processes, but only user's processes for euid!=0. >> Would you consider this something worth implementing? > >This belongs as a switch to ps, not as a sysctl variable. Login Class? I think the idea is for security. A global way to limits the users ability to "see" what others are doing. -David Langford To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message