From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 17 22:20:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA06386 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA06335 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:19:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA17369; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 07:24:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 07:24:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Doug White cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limit 'ps' to show only user's processes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > 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. > > So rewire ps to default to -U uid? Or make it impossible for anyone > except the superuser to see all processes? Make it impossible. The point is to hide this information from non-privileged users, and changing 'ps' only doesn't help much (I cna always recompile my own version). Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message