From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 15 15:46:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 021D414D8D for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:46:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA05743 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 00:46:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 00:46:27 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199911152346.AAA05743@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PATCH for testing Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Pierre Beyssac wrote in list.freebsd-current: > On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 02:27:10PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > And, also, we need to get rid of the 'e' option to ps entirely. It's a > > major security hole. > > Not more so than option 'u', or even 'a', if you ask me. > > It's common knowledge under Unix that you shouldn't put anything > sensitive in the command line or the environment. When there's any > risk, the best option is to remove 'ps' alltogether, IMHO. Sorry for jumping in here... When looking for "old" processes on shell boxes, I often find myself using ps -e and grepping for the DISPLAY variable, in order to find out if it's an abandoned local process, or if it was redirected to some remote host. That's what I'd need ps -e for. or is there another, possibly easier way to accomplish that? Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message