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Subject: Re: procfs + chmod = no go
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"Jimmy Scott" <admin@inet-solutions.be> writes:
> Is this possible on FreeBSD 4.9 ? Can't find anything about it in the
> manual pages. Just want to prevent lusers from running:
>
> for file in /proc/*/cmdline; do cat $file; echo; done

Why?  They can get the same information from ps(1) or the kern.proc
sysctl tree.

(in 5.2, you can set security.bsd.see_other_uid to 0 to prevent users
from seeing other users' processes)

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