Re: limit ps

[Ted U <grendel@heorot.stanford.edu>]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, brudas wrote:

> > Hi all,
> > how can I limit use of the ps command for simple users
> > so that they cannot see root process in my openbsd server?
>
> try this patch, and rebuil ps in src tree.

Won't work. ps -U root still sees all root processes.  Besides, are you
going to eliminate top too?  Top doesn't even need kmem permission, so
anyone can rebuild it.  Or write similar programs.

This has been covered before, check mailing archives.



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