Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 13:43:32 -0600 (MDT) From: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu> To: John Clark <jc@netview.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: blocking 'WHAT' in 'w' listing Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960806134231.5758B-100000@fubar.cs.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960806123056.0098fae4@netview.net>
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On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, John Clark wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if someone could tell me how to prevent the "WHAT" column > when the "w" command is run. For example, under Linux, the "su" command > would be the only thing shown when a user su-ed to another user. This > provided a desirable degree of privacy. Is there any similar method of > doing this under FreeBSD? You're right, it would provide privacy, but who's going to stop somebody from doing a 'ps -U <username>' to find out what they're running? - Justin J. Ashworth -- CS Student - Montana State University --- Chair, Association for Computing Machinery - MSU -- ashworth@cs.montana.edu - http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth
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