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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!


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