Re: UNIX cracks around here?

Knut Talman <knut.talman_at_mytoys.de> wrote in message news:<3CA1E13C.A8488F86_at_mytoys.de>...
> I know, that this is not a UNIX group but most of you work with UNIX so I ask
> anyway.
> Is there a possibility to restrict users output of ps? I don't want the ordinary
> user to see all the processes on my machine. For instance if somebody starts
> sqlplus with username and password from the command line everybody can see the
> password. Do you know any solution?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Knut

The solution is not to put the password on the commandline.

One way to restrict user's use of the ps command might be for the UNIX Admin to "remove it". Replace the ps command with a script or program that invokes the usual ps and filters out stuff. Trouble is then the UNIX admin has to remember where he put the real ps command, and ,of course, writing the filter.

  Ed
(really belongs in comp.sys.unix) Received on Wed Mar 27 2002 - 13:02:00 CST