From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 17 22:15:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA05574 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:15:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA05569 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:15:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-151.camalott.com [208.229.74.151]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA23809; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:15:48 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id AAA03486; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:14:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:14:29 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199809180514.AAA03486@detlev.UUCP> To: Henry Miller CC: Joel Ray Holveck , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Subject: Re: Limit 'ps' to show only user's processes From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: 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. > Maybe I don't understand how you propose to add it, but consider the > following: Sorry, I wasn't thinking clearly there. I was thinking that this was an ease-of-use feature you were proposing, not a security feature. I go off to sacrifice a few lung cells to the Gods of Security now. (Does anybody know who the closest Greco-Roman equivilent to a God of Security would be? Followups on this to -chat, cc'd to me please.) Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message