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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: non-root users unable to see command arguments with ps Date: 8 Mar 1996 22:38:40 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4hqctg$msn@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <313F903F.41C67EA6@mikimen.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Glenn Zazulia <glenn@mikimen.com> writes: > Since setting up 2.1, I noticed that ordinary users aren't able to > see the command arguments for other users' process with the ps > command. Is this some new security thing or just a screwed-up > system configuration? Screwed configuration. Are you sure your ps(1) is setgid kmem? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)