Re: FW: [ppa-dev] Severe bug in debian - phppgadmin opens up

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Antonio Fiol Bonnin <fiol(at)w3ping(dot)com>, "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>, "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: FW: [ppa-dev] Severe bug in debian - phppgadmin opens up
Date: 2001-11-29 01:58:58
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOEEJJCAAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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> > 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

I've tried it on FreeBSD and it seems an unprivlileged user can only see his
or her own environmental variables, it doesn't show variables for any other
user.

Chris

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