From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 15 14:49:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (orthanc.ab.ca [207.167.3.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 219E11517A for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:49:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca) Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (localhost.orthanc.ab.ca [127.0.0.1]) by orthanc.ab.ca (8.10.0.Beta6/8.10.0.Beta6) with ESMTP id dAFMmaQ18726 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:48:36 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199911152248.dAFMmaQ18726@orthanc.ab.ca> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ps -e In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:18:24 PST." <199911152218.OAA45512@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:48:32 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Dillon writes: Matthew> Why don't we get rid of the 'e' option to ps while we Matthew> are at it considering how much of a security hole it is. I wouldn't nuke it completely. Make -e a noop unless the real uid ps is running with matches the effective uid of the process being reported. And if ps is invoked with a real uid of 0, -e works as it does now. --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message