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Hi guys,

Please forgive if this is a bit of a noob question

I noticed that when the bsd.security.see_other_uids sysctl is set to 0, the
netstat command gives no output for users (non-root).

I can't find any mention of this in any documentation ... is this
intentional?

Cheers,
Marc

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