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

Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote:

> > Doug McNaught  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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