Hi, On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Chris Jenks wrote:
<snipped> > >As above: ps x shows only the processes for the user that gives the > >command (root in this case), but ps ax shows all. AFAIK there is no > >privacy which user runs which command. > > > >For this case you should be carefull to give passwords in commandline on > >multiuser systems. > > the only way I can think of keeping people from using ps -ax is to set an > alias up that when they type ps -ax points to ps -x for that user. Someone > with clue though will just just the absolute path for the file that they > want, or > will change their alias list. > > I don't see a problem with users seeing everyone else programs. Is there > a reason why you don't want users to use that command? > No, not for me, I have nothing to hide, but it is unimaginable how paranoia some people can be. Greetz, Sebastiaan
