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Date:      Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:48:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Enkhyl <enkhyl@hayseed.net>
To:        Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
Cc:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Limit 'ps' to show only user's processes
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.02.9809180947370.2474-100000@hillbilly.hayseed.net>
In-Reply-To: <l03020900b227bcb0c4e9@[194.32.164.2]>

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On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Bob Bishop wrote:

> 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...

I think the idea here is to make it a sysctl option.

-- 
Christopher Nielsen
Scient: The Art and Science of Electronic Business
cnielsen@scient.com
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