From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 5:11: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from everest.wananchi.com (everest.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4199337B422 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 05:10:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by everest.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.22 #2) id 150j3w-0004HE-00; Fri, 18 May 2001 15:08:56 +0300 Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 15:08:56 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: bsd@righi.df.unibo.it Subject: Re: accout management. Message-ID: <20010518150856.B18179@everest.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, bsd@righi.df.unibo.it References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "FreeBSD mailing list" on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:30:29PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD everest.wananchi.com 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 3:05PM up 21 days, 5:07, 4 users, load averages: 0.26, 0.23, 0.16 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * FreeBSD mailing list [20010518 13:30]: writing on= the subject 'accout management.' FreeBSD>=20 FreeBSD> I'd like to setup a FreeBSD box to manage a big number of shell us= ers. FreeBSD> The problem is that I would like to have tools to restrict users a= ctions. FreeBSD> For example I would like users not to view other users processes w= ith ps FreeBSD> or top like having every sigle user in a jail. I saw this is possi= ble 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>=20 FreeBSD> thanks FreeBSD>=20 FreeBSD> Rick Hi Rick,=20 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.=20 To just hide systems processes, you could use some sysctl(8) variables, which you can put in /etc/sysctl.conf. A good start is=20 sysctl -w kern.ps_showallprocs=3D0 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 --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7BRDYn7LIsuxjem8RAh1ZAKCDUj1llnb8FQ0bOO4jQ1ElAYksUwCgq72y UtK4RkdLzaeRbkmCOnLO1eE= =tTsT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message