Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 15:08:56 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: bsd@righi.df.unibo.it Subject: Re: accout management. Message-ID: <20010518150856.B18179@everest.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.33.0105181227140.23863-100000@righi.df.unibo.it>; from "FreeBSD mailing list" on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:30:29PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSO.4.33.0105181227140.23863-100000@righi.df.unibo.it>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] * FreeBSD mailing list <bsd@righi.df.unibo.it> [20010518 13:30]: writing on the subject 'accout management.' FreeBSD> FreeBSD> I'd like to setup a FreeBSD box to manage a big number of shell users. FreeBSD> The problem is that I would like to have tools to restrict users actions. FreeBSD> For example I would like users not to view other users processes with ps FreeBSD> or top like having every sigle user in a jail. I saw this is possible with FreeBSD> some tools avaliable for Linux, but since I like FreeBSD better I Wanted FreeBSD> to ask if some similar tool exists for FreeBSD. FreeBSD> FreeBSD> thanks FreeBSD> FreeBSD> Rick Hi Rick, What would be the point of hiding the processes in a situation where one user cannot manipuate another user's processes? In FreeBSD, I think only users with root privileges can manipulate other users processes. To just hide systems processes, you could use some sysctl(8) variables, which you can put in /etc/sysctl.conf. A good start is sysctl -w kern.ps_showallprocs=0 man sysctl -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286, 00100-NAIROBI,KE. Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representation of contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation of anything -- except a show to be ignored by anyone capable of sitting upright in a chair and chewing gum simultaneously. -- Richard Schickel [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7BRDYn7LIsuxjem8RAh1ZAKCDUj1llnb8FQ0bOO4jQ1ElAYksUwCgq72y UtK4RkdLzaeRbkmCOnLO1eE= =tTsT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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