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Re: [suse-security] privacy of environment variables
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 03:35:48 +0100 (CET)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511030333450.10038@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Wednesday 2005-11-02 at 08:37 -0500, trainier@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> That's not true at all. ps will show any process on the system. For
> example, `ps aux` shows every
> process running.
Yes, it shows every process, but not the environment of every process, not
those of other users (the 'e' option for command 'ps'). At least, not in
9.3. I just tried.
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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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The Wednesday 2005-11-02 at 08:37 -0500, trainier@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> That's not true at all. ps will show any process on the system. For
> example, `ps aux` shows every
> process running.
Yes, it shows every process, but not the environment of every process, not
those of other users (the 'e' option for command 'ps'). At least, not in
9.3. I just tried.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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