On 21 April 2012 03:48, Ivan Kanakarakis <ivan.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 21 April 2012 03:25, Kurt H Maier <khm-suckl...@intma.in> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 02:52:17AM +0300, Ivan Kanakarakis wrote:
>> > dah
>> >
>> >   $ ps e -C ii | grep -o "IIPASS=[^ ]*"
>> >   IIPASS="foobar"
>>
>> I am mildly convinced that other users cannot see env data with ps -e.
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> a test user here (Linux) can see the
> processes but _not_ the environment
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>    $ ps --version
>   procps version 3.2.8
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> also the man 1p ps says:
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>        At one time a format was included to display the
>        environment array of the process. This was deleted
>        because there is no  portable  way  to display it.
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>> I am also vaguely determined that on linux this information comes from
>> /proc/$PID/environ and is thus controlled by that file's mode.
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>>
oh, forgot to say, environ is 0400 readable and owned
only by the user that started the process


>  If not, we should write a better ps.
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> --
> *Ivan c00kiemon5ter V Kanakarakis*  >:3
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