On Jan 6 at 21:04, Anthony Atkielski launched this into the bitstream:
Reko Turja writes:
RT> Actually not command line options as such, but you can make a login
RT> class for the top user in /etc/login.conf and feed the options via TOP
RT> environment variable from there.
RT>
RT> You cant shell out from top and renicing from non root account is
RT> impossible (except dropping the niceness of your own process). I think
RT> the approach is secure enough and if you give "topper" good enough
RT> password or deny logon from anywhere except from console, everything
RT> should be ok. Of course if the terminal is accessible to others than
RT> administrative staff, giving out the usernames can be a risk, but you
RT> can use the usernumbers option to avoid giving out the usernames.
RT>
RT> Did myself something very similar with a IPless firewall between a while
RT> back but I ran vmstat in the console instead. Good one glance monitoring
RT> without the need of logging on the machine itself.
I created a special user that logs directly into top. I don't run
telnet or anything so login isn't possible from anywhere else, and it's
a plain user account with a good password. It seems to work pretty
well.
While masking the machine/LAN/location specific info, could you please
post how you did this? What shell etc etc. I (for one) would be *most*
grateful for this since (like many apparently) I'd like to do this too.
Not mission critical in my case, but wildly cool if it could be done
securely.
Regards & TIA,
-Colin
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