Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:53:28 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: David.E.Tweten@nasa.gov Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Subject: Re: Ps(1) Restricting Command Lines Message-ID: <20040330075328.GG8930@darkness.comp.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <2580.1080595212@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov> References: <2580.1080595212@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:20:12PM -0800, Dave Tweten wrote: +> As of my STABLE upgrade to the 8:00 GMT Saturday version, I have noticed +> that ps(1) is behaving differently. Unless run by root, "ps -ax" refuses +> to print the command line associated with each process. I've checked a +> couple things: +> +> 1. /bin/ps is not SGID kmem and /dev/kmem permission is set to 0640, +> but that isn't the cause of this problem (though it may cause +> others, since the ps(1) man page says it needs to read /dev/kmem). +> +> 2. /proc/*/cmdline is owned by root:wheel and has 0444 permissions. +> It should therefore be usable by ps(1) regardless of who runs it. +> +> So it looks like command lines should print, but they don't. Does anybody +> know what's happening here? This is my fault. Fix committed. Sorry for the mess and thank you for your report. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd@FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAaSd4ForvXbEpPzQRAn5zAKDvTlEN37o1hUIf0h2YvWJjO6rRLwCeNlzr qxBk9+Xh+ag/ILLTeZOGWUg= =U0i9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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