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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: PS is not showing all processes owned by a user
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Ofloo wrote:
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> No hacker would want to hide a process from a user it might want to hide a
> process from root user.

Well, from all users-- agreed.

> Also if the hacker was able to hide a process from a
> user, it would of needed access to ps binary or freebsd source tree on that
> system, having that access the hacker would of tried other things and not
> hide a bnc from just a user account.

Why, yes...at least, they'd certainly try to do so.

-- 
-Chuck