Bug Hunter wrote:

> > Is there a way to restrict output of the program 'ps', so that it'll only
> > show the users own processes, not other users?
> 
>   If you get the source code to ps and hack it so that the "ax" command
> line switches are not usable, it will do what you want.

Except that the user can just install their own (fully-functional)
version of `ps'.

Security restrictions cannot be imposed in user space. They have to be
imposed (at least in part) by the kernel.

-- 
Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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