Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 10:17:44 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PATCH for testing Message-ID: <24359.942743864@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Nov 1999 11:14:02 %2B0200." <45617.942743642@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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In message <45617.942743642@axl.noc.iafrica.com>, Sheldon Hearn writes: > > >On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 07:19:52 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> > Why don't we get rid of the 'e' option to ps while we are at it >> > considering how much of a security hole it is. >> >> Hmm, well, I like to have it around for root at least... > >Exactly. > >In a perfect world, the -e option will only allow inspection of the >environment of processes for which the owner of the ps process has >sufficient priveledge. Yes that makes sense, because if all comes to all they could attach a debugger and find it that way anyway. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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