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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
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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

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