From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 5 22:44:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA11997 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 22:44:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA11991 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 22:44:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA18352; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 22:44:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 22:44:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: The Administrator cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, The Administrator wrote: > well on a lot of unix systems linux included when a users is su to root > the w command does not display what the user is doing this for privacy > reason because one is root. Soo is it possible to change the behaviour > in some way or one must hack himself the w.c program in FreeBSD ? What do you do as root that needs to be masked? AFAIK no programs require you to provide passwords and other sensitive information on the command line. Anyone who wants to know what you're doing can always check with ps -waux y66| grep root to see what you're doing.... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major