| From: | Antonio Fiol Bonnín <fiol(at)w3ping(dot)com> |
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| To: | Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com>, Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: FW: [ppa-dev] Severe bug in debian - phppgadmin opens up |
| Date: | 2001-11-28 17:17:04 |
| Message-ID: | 3C051C10.3803D22C@w3ping.com |
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Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote:
> > Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com> writes:
> > > But this way the password ends up in the environment, which on many
> > > systems is visible to other processes/users (via /proc or the 'ps'
> > > command).
> >
> > Your *environment* is visible to other users? Geez, what a broken
> > system ...
>
> Try "ps axewww" ? Doesn't work on your platform ?
> Works on AIX, Linux?, ...
Linux Debian Unstable (updated 1 week ago).
For a non-root user, only her processes' environment appears.
(and /proc/*/environ permissions are 400, the user being the process owner)
For root, all processes' environment is shown.
Antonio
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> Andreas
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