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Date:      Fri, 18 Sep 1998 07:24:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Limit 'ps' to show only user's processes
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809180723160.15340-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809171304420.2759-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Doug White wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> 
> > Several people have been asking for this "feature" from time to time,
> > namely that they could set a system variable (sysctl?) to limit 'ps' to
> > show not all processes, but only user's processes for euid!=0.
> 
> So rewire ps to default to -U uid?  Or make it impossible for anyone
> except the superuser to see all processes?

Make it impossible. The point is to hide this information from
non-privileged users, and changing 'ps' only doesn't help much (I cna
always recompile my own version).

Andrzej Bialecki

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