From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 12:43:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA15235 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 12:43:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.montana.edu (fubar.cs.montana.edu [153.90.192.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA15207 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 12:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by cs.montana.edu; id AA06364; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 13:43:32 -0600 Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 13:43:32 -0600 (MDT) From: Justin Ashworth To: John Clark Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: blocking 'WHAT' in 'w' listing In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960806123056.0098fae4@netview.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, John Clark wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if someone could tell me how to prevent the "WHAT" column > when the "w" command is run. For example, under Linux, the "su" command > would be the only thing shown when a user su-ed to another user. This > provided a desirable degree of privacy. Is there any similar method of > doing this under FreeBSD? You're right, it would provide privacy, but who's going to stop somebody from doing a 'ps -U ' to find out what they're running? - Justin J. Ashworth -- CS Student - Montana State University --- Chair, Association for Computing Machinery - MSU -- ashworth@cs.montana.edu - http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth