Re: proccess

[Chris Jenks <rattis@dhol.org>]

At 06:31 AM 3/11/02, Sebastiaan wrote:
> High,
>
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, David Richards wrote:
>
> > hi
> >     is there a way of making my system only show the proccess that the user
> > is running .
> > so when user1 does ps aux it only shows user1 proccess?
> >
> Yes, just don't give the option to show all users:
> ps x or ps ux
>
> See 'ps --help' and 'man ps'
>
> > and will root be able to see all too ?
> >
> As above: ps x shows only the processes for the user that gives the
> command (root in this case), but ps ax shows all. AFAIK there is no
> privacy which user runs which command.
>
> For this case you should be carefull to give passwords in commandline on
> multiuser systems.

the only way I can think of keeping people from using ps -ax is to set an
alias up that when they type ps -ax points to ps -x for that user. Someone
with clue though will just just the absolute path for the file that they 
want, or
will change their alias list.

I don't see a problem with users seeing everyone else programs. Is there
a reason why you don't want users to use that command?