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[Chuck Robey]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Chuck Robey wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, that was changed in current.  There was serious discussion about
> removing all access to the environment and args from ps, but it was
> considered too important to sys admins to take it all out, so it was
> limited to root and the owning user.  ps isn't setgid kmem anymore.

Let me edit myself, because that last statement is wrong.  Ps used to get
it's stuff from /proc, that's changed.  It IS setgid, but does only show
the environment if you're the process owner or root (in -current).

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