Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 06:52:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Daniel B. Hemmerich" <dbh142@psu.edu> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: kern.ps_showallprocs workaround Message-ID: <200202031152.GAA26920@webmail3.cac.psu.edu>
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I believe bugs is the correct mailing list to send this sorta issue to. If not,
oh well, too late.
The goal, I believe, of the sysctl kern.ps_showallprocs variable (setting) is to hide the system processes from the common user, as there is not always a need
to let users have all that information.
Well, the proc filesystem, procfs, is still wide open with valuable process information for anyone to read. I may just not have found the correct documentation,
but I did not find anyway to really change this w/o me guessing and possibly
messing my workstation up.
Someone I know wrote a perl script which basically duplicates the ouput of the ps program by grabbing the procfs information and neatly displaying it. I believe
he didn't even bother to really dig into some of the procfs information that is
avaliable to the world.
The URL of the script if anyone is interested is:
http://www.hhp-programming.net/ourprograms/hhp-sap_evade.pl
If there are plans to change this situation, or if I am just flat out mistaken, please let me know.
Thanks a lot,
Daniel B. Hemmerich
<code@psu.edu>
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