Subject: Re: confidential PRs that should be resolved before 1.4 ships
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: tech-security
Date: 04/28/1999 11:36:15
Darren Reed wrote:

> > I'm not so keen on having ps no longer list others' processes, but
> > others' process args is a definite issue.  (it's the same as the
> > environment, really.)
> 
> "ps -aewww" is your friend when you're an uber-hacker keeping track
> of who's who on the system :)
> 
> I thinking removing process args from display is going perhaps too far ?

As I said in a separate email, "root" should always be able to see
everything.

Simon.