Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 16:35:36 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/talk display.c talk.1 talk.c Message-ID: <20020714153536.GA97536@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <20020714082543.B74633@iguana.icir.org> References: <200207141408.g6EE8ilL034295@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020714151233.GA36636@hades.hell.gr> <20020714082543.B74633@iguana.icir.org>
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On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 08:25:43AM -0700, Luigi Rizzo 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". You can still figure out who is talking to who with netstat and fstat I'd guess? > "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 ? :) Isn't this what kern.ps_showallprocs is for? I've always considered ps and w showing what other people are doing a good way for users to learn new commands. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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