From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 17 23:51:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17668 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 23:51:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17653 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 23:51:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id HAA13603; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 07:51:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 07:35:14 +0100 (BST) X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 07:35:12 +0000 To: Doug White From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: Limit 'ps' to show only user's processes Cc: Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:05 pm -0700 17/9/98, Doug White wrote: > >So rewire ps to default to -U uid? Or make it impossible for anyone >except the superuser to see all processes? NOOOOOO! Ahem, sorry for the outburst, but please consider that if unpriv users can't see all processes thay will forever plague people like me with "Is the xyz server running?". It's bad enough now... -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message