From owner-freebsd-security Tue Nov 23 23: 3: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9056915548; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:02:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96DAD1C6D; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 15:02:52 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Christopher Masto Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps on 4.0-current In-Reply-To: Message from Christopher Masto of "Tue, 23 Nov 1999 22:28:13 EST." <19991123222813.A12570@netmonger.net> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 15:02:52 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19991124070252.96DAD1C6D@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Christopher Masto wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 12:54:15AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > I'm personally leaning towards the opinion that the argv is public > > property and should be visible, but then again, I can see the point > > in hiding it in some circumstances. > > > > I'll stick a sysctl in there which defaults to the "open" position > > and people who need to hide it can set it to "close" to do so. > > Please. Thank you. > > Not everyone wears the sysadmin hat with the face shield and gas mask, > as much as it may currently be in style. If it can work both ways, > even better. Definately! This is NOT AN ACCEPTABLE CHANGE BY DEFAULT! Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message