In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Somers writes:
>> In the last episode (Nov 23), Brian Somers said:
>> > $ ps jtva
>> > USER PID PPID PGID SESS JOBC STAT TT TIME COMMAND
>> > root 222 1 222 9dac40 0 Is+ va 0:00.01 (getty)
>> > $ sudo ps jtva
>> > USER PID PPID PGID SESS JOBC STAT TT TIME COMMAND
>> > root 222 1 222 9dac40 0 Is+ va 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc tt
>> > $ head -1 /etc/motd
>> > FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (HAK) #9: Mon Nov 22 01:09:55 GMT 1999
>> >
>> > This looks a bit wrong....
>>
>> Now that does look weird. After a bit more investigation, it looks
>> like you can only get the full commandline of your own processes. Root
>> can see all commandlines.
>Any comments Poul ? Is this anything to do with the recent command
>line buffering ?
Yes, I changed it to this behaviour at warners asking (I think he had
the security-meister hard-hat on at the time).
I'm personally leaning towards the opinion that the argv is public
property and should be visible, but then again, I can see the point
in hiding it in some circumstances.
I'll stick a sysctl in there which defaults to the "open" position
and people who need to hide it can set it to "close" to do so.
Will this satisfy everybody ?
Warner ?
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