Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 08:25:43 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/talk display.c talk.1 talk.c Message-ID: <20020714082543.B74633@iguana.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20020714151233.GA36636@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 06:12:33PM %2B0300 References: <200207141408.g6EE8ilL034295@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020714151233.GA36636@hades.hell.gr>
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On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 06:12:33PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: ... > Damn. Now I can't use ps/who to find out who's talking to whom! but you can still see that they are using "talk". "ps" and friends are full of privacy violation, as they allow unprivileged users to peek at what others are doing by liberally showing program arguments (though they can be hidden by setproctitle, but almost nobody does that) and program names (which cannot even be hidden). I think this part should be seriously revised (you in Bcc, are you listening ? :) cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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