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[Frank Tobin]

Chuck Robey, at 13:36 on Thu, 20 Jan 2000, wrote:

> Isn't there a way to suppress the argument listing?  I know that, under
> FreeBSD current, you can't even see the environment unless you're root or
> the owning user.

In FreeBSD-STABLE, the only reason you are able to see the arguments of
other people's processes is because programs such as 'ps' and 'top' are
setgid "kmem"; without kernel-memory access via the group kmem, you can
only read the arguments of your vectors.

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